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The Tudors and the Founding of the Savoy Hospital

Monday 29 April 2013, 4.30PM to 6.00pm

Speaker(s): Professor Charlotte Stanford, Visiting Fulbright Scholar (Brigham-Young University)

By ca. 1500 every English town had multiple hospitals which were to provide lodging, food and spiritual care to those in need. Yet Henry VII, in his will, expressed a desire to found a new hospital in London because “there be few or noon such commune hospitallis within this our reeame.” Henry’s new Savoy hospital attempted to draw on Florence as its primary model, casting the Tudors as Renaissance patrons, but was also shaped by English conventions.

The Savoy Palace

Location: The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building

Admission: Admission is free, everyone is welcome