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Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 / by Carla Keyvanian.

By: Keyvanian, Carla [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history; ; v. 12. | Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 251.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Description: xv, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004307544; 9004307540Subject(s): Hospital buildings -- Italy -- Rome -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500 | Public hospitals -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 | Architecture and state -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 | Cities and towns -- Rome -- Growth -- History -- To 1500 | City and town life -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 | Social control -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 | Politics and culture -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 | Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc | Rome (Italy) -- Social conditions | Rome (Italy) -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 725/.510945632 LOC classification: RA 989 .I44 | R655 2015NLM classification: WX 11 GI8
Contents:
Part 1. Building states : Rome and Europe -- Healing forgiveness -- The Borgo -- Hospitals, monasteries and urban control -- Part 2. Conquering a city : Rome and Latium -- Hospitals, towers and barons -- The Lateran -- The papal hospital : Santo Spirito in Sassia -- Epilogue.
Scope and content: "In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200-1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome"--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Rome Global Gateway Library
General Stacks 		RA 989 .I44 R655 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000031404239

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Building states : Rome and Europe -- Healing forgiveness -- The Borgo -- Hospitals, monasteries and urban control -- Part 2. Conquering a city : Rome and Latium -- Hospitals, towers and barons -- The Lateran -- The papal hospital : Santo Spirito in Sassia -- Epilogue.

"In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200-1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome"--Provided by publisher.

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