Almshouse, Guild and Town Community: The Lord Leycester Hospital in its Urban Setting

济贫院、行会和城镇社区：城市环境中的莱斯特勋爵医院

• 批准号: 2881340
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2881340
• 关键词: Almshouse; Guild; Town; Community; Lord

This PhD project focuses on the Lord Leycester Hospital, a Warwickshire Almshouse, founded by Robert Dudley in 1571. It explores how this elite philanthropic organisation operated within local, regional, and national frameworks over its first century, questioning how far its relationship to the town of Warwick was reciprocal, complementary, contested? The history of the Lord Leycester Hospital and its buildings stretch over 700 years. Its buildings are one of the most intact examples of medieval buildings in England, and thus carry with them a huge cultural significance and architectural value that attracts tourists and visitors to Warwick every year. In 1571 it was founded as an almshouse for former servicemen, who continue to live in the Hospital's apartments and benefit from its philanthropy. However, it was intended to be independent of the town, with only some Warwick residents as its beneficiaries. As a result, relations with the town corporation, Warwick Castle (owned by Dudley's brother), and the churches of St Mary's and St Nicholas were often strained. It was not only a rival institution to local parish poor relief, but also founded by an external patron with radical Protestant leanings. The connection of the Hospital to 'Puritanism' would have sat uncomfortably alongside the more moderate Church of England course adhered to by the majority of the town's residents, not to speak of those retaining Catholic beliefs. This project therefore sets out to investigate the relationship between this almshouse and its urban setting at a time of fundamental religious and socio-economic change.

这个博士学位项目的重点是罗伯特·达德利（Robert Dudley）于1571年创立的沃里克郡施舍莱斯特医院（Lord Leycester Hospital）。它探索了这个精英慈善组织在一世纪的地方，地区和国家框架中如何运作的那个精英慈善组织，质疑其与沃里克（Warwickal）的关系是多远，是对沃里克（Warwickal of Warwickal）的关系。莱斯特勋爵医院及其建筑物的历史已有700年的历史。它的建筑是英格兰中世纪建筑最完整的例子之一，因此具有巨大的文化意义和建筑价值，每年吸引游客和游客来到沃里克。 1571年，它成立为前军人的施舍，他们继续居住在医院的公寓中，并从其慈善事业中受益。但是，它的目的是独立于该镇，只有一些沃里克居民是其受益人。结果，与城镇公司，沃里克城堡（由达德利的兄弟拥有）以及圣玛丽和圣尼古拉斯教堂的关系经常紧张。这不仅是当地教区不良救济的竞争对手机构，而且还由一个以激进的新教徒倾向的外部赞助人建立。医院与“清教徒”的联系将不舒服地与更温和的英格兰教会一起遵守该镇的大多数居民，而不是说那些保留天主教信仰的人。因此，该项目旨在调查在宗教和社会经济变化的根本性时期，该施舍与其城市环境之间的关系。