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Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 /

"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. Keyvania...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keyvanian, Carla
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Series: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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.