Hospitality is a modern generic term for the phenomenon mostly as practiced in the private sphere. In early modern European societies a great variety of terms for the practice can be found, especially in normative sources (e.g. juristic and theological treatises and sermons); along with Latin hospitalitas (see English hospitality, French hospitalité, and German Hospitalität), hospitium, hospitatio militaris (“military hospitality,” i.e. billeting), and convivium (“ban…