Hospitium ([hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃]; Greek: ξενία, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine...
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The Hospitium of St John the Baptist was the hospitium, or dormitory for pilgrims, of Reading Abbey, which today is a large, ruined abbey in the centre...
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Reading Abbey (section Hospitium)
town hall by inserting an upper floor into the former refectory of the hospitium of the abbey. The lower floor of this building continued to be used by...
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associated with St Mary's Abbey, including the ruins of the abbey church, the Hospitium, the lodge and part of the surviving precinct wall. The remains of St...
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building, the Lupanar, was dedicated to prostitution. A large hotel or hospitium (of 1,000 m2) was found at Murecine, a short distance from Pompeii, when...
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with churches and extensive holdings throughout England. In Lewes it had hospitiums dedicated to St James and to St Nicholas. In 1264, during the Battle of...
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earlier. Before that concession, the Pope said that the friars had no hospitium in Rome. At that time St. Sixtus was no longer theirs; Conrad of Metz...
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Inverkeithing (section Hospitium of the Grey Friars)
surviving examples of a friary building in Scotland, the category-A listed Hospitium of the Grey Friars (also known as the Franciscan order). The friary could...
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stranger or foreigner, hence a guest. Another noun derived from this, hospitium came to signify hospitality, that is the relation between guest and shelterer...
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by inserting an upper floor into the refectory of the Hospitium of St John, the former hospitium of Reading Abbey. For some 400 years up to the 1970s,...
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