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.
Author(s): Carla Keyvanian
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 251. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 12
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 464
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1
Part 1. Building States: Rome and Europe
1. Healing Forgiveness 25
2. The Borgo 78
3. Hospitals, Monasteries and Urban Control 138
Part 2. Conquering a City: Rome and Latium
4. Hospitals, Towers and Barons 201
5. The Lateran 288
6. The Papal Hospital: Santo Spirito in Sassia 339
Epilogue 384
Bibliography 389
Index of People 430
Places and Subjects 438
