TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keyvanian,Carla
TI  - Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004307551
AV  - RA989.I44 R655 2015
U1  - 725/.510945632 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Hospital buildings
KW  - Italy
KW  - Rome
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Public hospitals
KW  - Social control
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Rome (Italy)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004307551
ER  -