英文摘要 |
During the High Middle Ages, Europe started its hospitality programs to provide accommodations to travelers, pilgrims and occasionally people who fell ill. Consequently, the patron saint of travelers was given birth to in order to cope with such needs and desire. Hospice institutions initially were mostly subsidiaries of monasteries and they rarely functioned as infirmaries. After 1070, however, when St. John of Jerusalem Hospital began its operation, not only were pilgrims taken care of, but the poor were given alms and the ill were attentively treated. With the rise of the Crusades, the wounded, too, were taken care of by St. John's Hospital. After the 12th century, therefore, hospitals throughout Europe served the charity and infirmary functions, patterning after St. John of Jerusalem Hospital. This article introduces the transition of St. John's from its charity capacity to infirmary and acute hospital accommodations; members of the institution are then called Hospitallers. Later on, some of the Hospitallers assumed the acts of chivalric knights, specifically functioning to fight against the Islamic soldiers. This article also discusses major concerns carried out by the Hospitallers, including human dignity, basic human rights as according to the teaching of Christian love, hence the extended ideas of misericordia, social commonwealth and egalitarianism. Such religious fraternity, in stark contrast to Derrida's notion of hospitality based on power struggle, manifests the harmonizing effect and the neighborliness of the Christian belief. |