Abstract
The article deals with the history of palliative care, and examines several relevant documents from the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era. The study is divided into two parts. The first part explores the contribution of the great theologian of the late Middle Ages Jean Gerson (1363–1429) to the field of end-of-life care, and is based on his texts La médecine de l’âme, Pour l’Hôtel Dieu, Lettre à un inconnu, Lettre à un vieillard, and Nova epistola pro instructione episcoporum et prelatorum. The second part follows Gerson’s legacy in the field of end-of-life care and is based on the texts by important theologians of the second half of the 15th and early 17th centuries.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Porter assistance aux assistants: Jean Gerson (1363–1429) et sa postérité dans le domaine des soins de fin de vie
- Music, Ritual and Death in a Windesheim Community in the Early Modern Low Countries
- Alfonso Carrillo y Acuña and His Attempts to Reform the Toledan Church within the Context of the Castilian Succession Conflict (1465–1479)
- Establishing the Jesuit Province of Mexico: The Development and the Institutions of a Missionary and Educational Province (1572–1615)
- Publicus–Privatus The Divine Foundations of Authority in Dietrich Reinking
- Knowledge Communication and the Translation of Devotional Literature within Samuel Hartlib’s Circle
- An Analysis of the Dissertation on the Conformity of Faith and Reason in G.W. Leibniz’s Theodicy