Die Edition von 203 Spitalquellen von Vorarlberg bis Burgenland (Spätmittelalter bis 19. Jahrhundert) bietet einen breiten Einblick in das Spitalwesen: Spitalregeln, Instruktionen für Spitalbedienstete, Gebetsordnungen. Neben einer breiten Einleitung wird jedes Stück in den Kontext der jeweiligen Spitalgeschichte gestellt, was umfangreiche Archivrecherchen erforderte. Band 2: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:800The voluminous publication edits 203 such items covering all of the Austrian territories from the Late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Hospital rules, instructions for hospital staff, job descriptions, special rules as, for example, prayer orders and dietaries, but also inventories were meant to channel the way of life of inmates and staff. Each of the edited sources is accompanied by a survey on the history of the hospital and a comment contextualising the contents, which necessitated pioneering archival research in many cases where no serious scholarly treatment of the hospitals' history was available. Second volume: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:800