Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
By: by Carla Keyvanian
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- volume 252; Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history -- volume 12
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004307544; 9789004307551
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Politics and culture; Architecture and state; Social control; Public hospitals; Hospital buildings; Design and construction; Politics and government; Urban development; Social conditions; City and town life; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Building states : Rome and Europe; title: Healing forgiveness; title: The Borgo; title: Hospitals, monasteries and urban control; title: Part 2. Conquering a city : Rome and Latium; title: Hospitals, towers and barons; title: The Lateran; title: The papal hospital : Santo Spirito in Sassia; title: Epilogue.