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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    or hospitium, reciprocal "guest–host" bonds between families. It can be difficult to distinguish patrocinium or clientela, amicitia, and hospitium, since...
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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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    Sir Halford John Mackinder, and the college's first home was the old hospitium building behind Reading Town Hall. The Schools of Art and Science were...
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    building, the Lupanar, was dedicated to prostitution. A large hotel or hospitium (of 1,000 m2) was found nearby at Murecine/Moregine, when the Naples-Salerno...
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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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    may call the visitor's parents and ask for permission. Bread and salt Hospitium Southern hospitality In the West today hospitality is rarely a matter...
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    monastery's estates. At Reading Abbey, the abbey's hospitium, or dormitory for pilgrims, known as the Hospitium of St. John was founded in 1189. The abbey school...
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    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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  • Wycombe, England Hospital of St John the Baptist, Winchester, England Hospitium of St John the Baptist, of Reading Abbey, England Brothers Hospitallers...
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    (2013; ISBN 978-0-14-312242-5), edited by Kate Bernheimer. Darby and Joan Hospitium Sodom and Gomorrah Xenia (Greek) Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004). The Types of...
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    "hospitia" had a large common room or refectory surrounded by bed rooms. Each hospitium had its own brewhouse and bakehouse, and the building for more prestigious...
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    this time, the School was housed in the former Hospitium of St John. The main building of the hospitium still exists, but the refectory, which once housed...
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    locations Christianity and homosexuality Christianity and sexual orientation Hospitium Homosexuality and Judaism Homosexuality and religion Homosexuality in...
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    about the Argonauts' purpose and voyage to his kingdom.: III: 275–330  Hospitium - Greco-Roman tradition of hospitality Bellerophon, protected by xenia...
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    pledging mutual support among families or communities was compatible with hospitium in Roman culture, and the Celtiberians continued to produce the tokens...
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    from her lover. At the Murecine/Moregine site was a large Roman hotel or hospitium. The Murecine Silver Treasure and the Tablets (providing a unique record...
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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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    the relief of the poor, with a great hall annexed, formed the paupers' hospitium. The group of buildings devoted to monastic life included two cloisters...
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    The "More lasses" moved to Inverkeithing, possibly to the Hospitium of the Grey Friars...
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    close to the site of Reading Abbey, it is adjoined to the north by the Hospitium of St John and to the south by St Laurence's Church. No longer the home...
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  • entered the Greek language, for example ὁσπίτιον [oˈspition] (Latin: hospitium, 'hostel', therefore "house", σπίτι [ˈspiti] in Modern Greek), σέλλα [ˈsela]...
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  • ideals led most Medieval monasteries to develop a hospitium or hospice for pilgrims. This hospitium eventually developed into what we now understand as...
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  • feature of the camp was the military hospital (valetudinarium, later hospitium). Augustus instituted the first permanent medical corps in the Roman army...
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    secondary group of buildings (17, 18). These have been identified as the hospitium or the abbot's house, but they occupy the position in which the infirmary...
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