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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797745403321

Autore

Keyvanian Carla

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-30755-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 252

Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

725/.510945632

Soggetti

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 - Growth - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

City and town life - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

City planning - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

Urbanization - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc

Rome (Italy) Social conditions

Rome (Italy) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Healing Forgiveness -- 2 The Borgo -- 3 Hospitals, Monasteries and Urban Control -- 4 Hospitals, Towers and Barons -- 5 The Lateran -- 6 The Papal Hospital: Santo Spirito in Sassia -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of People -- Places and Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

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.