Catholic Christendon 1300-1700 Ser.

During the late-fourteenth century, two related institutions developed in Rome: the Jubilee, a year-long celebration of penitential pilgrimage to Rome's shrines, and national pilgrim hospices founded by a handful of foreigners in Rome for the care of poor pilgrims and the sick from their homelands. Modestly sized and little heralded at first, these hospices matured into institutions of extraordinary political and social influence. Strangers and Sojourners is a historical monograph that explains the parallel proliferation of these two institutions through an exploration of Rome's simultaneously universal and urban character.