Segregation and Integration in the History of the Hospital

Dr Valentina Zivkovic, senior research fellow of the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, participated in the international scholarly conference Segregation and Integration in the History of the Hospital (International Network for the History of Hospitals), on the 10^th and 11^th of April, 2015 in Dubrovnik. The conference was organized by: the Oxford Brookes University and the Croatian historical institute from Zagreb. Dr Zivkovic presented a paper concerning the subject of: Rogans dictas pauperes personas ut rogent Deum pro anima sua. The integration and segregation of hospitals within the framework of the sacral topography of medieval Kotor. The main subject of this year’s conference was the concept of segregation and integration in the history of the hospital as an institution from the Middle Ages up to modern times, viewed through different aspects: political, economic, religious, cultural, architectural etc. The paper Rogans dictas pauperes personas ut rogent Deum pro anima sua analyses the appearance, development, operation, organization and the religious background of the medieval hospitals of Kotor, hospitale sancte Crucis, hospitale Spiritus sancti and hospitale s. Lazari (Domus leprosorum). The problem put in this context enabled the overview of these institutions through a dynamical process of integration and segregation on different levels – from economic and social to charitable demands of the medieval religious practices.