Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
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Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 251 . Brill's studies on art,
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-429) and indexes
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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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - BUILDING STATES:
ROME and EUROPE
Chapter 1 - Healing Forgiveness
Chapter 2 - The Borgo
Chapter 3 - Hospitals, Monasteries and Urban Control
PART II - CONQUERING A CITY:
ROME and LATIUM
Chapter 1 - Hospitals, Towers and Barons
Chapter 2 - The Lateran
Chapter 3 - The Papal Hospital: Santo Spirito in Sassia
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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