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Author Keyvanian, Carla.

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

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 251
Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 12
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 251.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 12.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Hospital buildings -- Italy -- Rome -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500.
Hospital buildings.
Italy -- Rome.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject 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.
City and town life -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
City and town life.
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) -- Social conditions.
Social control -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
Social control.
Politics and culture -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
Politics and culture.
Rome (Italy) -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Keyvanian, Carla. Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 9789004307544 (DLC) 2015031751 (OCoLC)918590696
ISBN 9789004307551 (electronic book)
9004307559 (electronic book)
9789004307544
9004307540
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004307551