Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30754-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 251/12, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keyvanian, Carla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Carla Keyvanian, Ph.D., MIT, is Associate Professor of Architectural History at Auburn University. She has published articles on Roman urbanism and the representation of cities as well as on the historiography of architectural and urban history.