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

Main entry:

Keyvanian, Carla, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 251
Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-429) 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.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
1850-9999

ISBN:

9789004307544 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004307540 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
(e-book)
9789004307551

Subject:

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.
Urban development Italy Rome 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.
Medicine, Medieval.
Hospitals, Public history
Hospital Design and Construction history
History, Medieval
History, 15th Century
Médecine médiévale.
Médecine Histoire 15e siècle.
Architecture and state
Buildings
City and town life
Hospital buildings Design and construction
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Public hospitals
Social conditions
Social control
Urbanization Italy Rome History To 1500.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) Social conditions.
Rome (Italy) Politics and government.
Rome
Rome (Italie) Administration.
Italy Rome

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

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.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294860
Call No.: BIB 240760
Status: Available

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