{"product_id":"hospitals-and-urbanism-in-rome-1200-1500-9789004307544","title":"Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“readable and detailed […] the author convincingly ties the architectural history of hospitals to power and to urban planning and development in high and late medieval Rome.”  Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1495-1497.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  PART I – BUILDING STATES:  ROME and EUROPE  Chapter 1 – Healing Forgiveness  Chapter 2 – The Borgo\u2028 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210679312727,"sku":"9789004307544","price":178.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hospitals-and-urbanism-in-rome-1200-1500-9789004307544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}