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Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 / by Carla Keyvanian.
Van Pelt Library RA989.I44 R655 2015
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Van Pelt Library DG737.55 .E34 2014
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Fine Arts Library NC1807.G3 C34 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keyvanian, Carla.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 12.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 0920-8607 v. 251.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospital buildings--Italy--Rome--Design and construction--History--To 1500.
- Hospital buildings.
- Public hospitals--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Public hospitals.
- Architecture and state--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Architecture and state.
- Urban development--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Urban development.
- City and town life--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- City and town life.
- Politics and culture.
- History.
- Social control.
- Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--Social conditions.
- Social control--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Politics and culture--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Rome (Italy)--Politics and government.
- Hospitals--history.
- Italy.
- Buildings.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Hospital buildings--Design and construction.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Italy--Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals--history.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-429) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004307544
- 9004307540
- OCLC:
- 918590696
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