Sienese Hospitals Within and Beyond the City Walls

Zusammenfassung

This book combines the history of charitable institutions with the study of power in urban and rural spaces from the late medieval to the early modern era. Focusing on the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, the book goes beyond examining hospitals in an urban context to also consider the significant impact of charitable institutions in rural spaces. Case studies of Santa Maria della Scala's farms allow an investigation of the relationship between urban institutions and their rural properties, while looking at subject hospitals outside the Sienese state offers a glimpse into the competition for power with non-Sienese entities. As Siena's politics shifted in the sixteenth century, Santa Maria della Scala and its rural spaces became sites where power was negotiated. The book thus demonstrates how geographies of power affected the practice of charity for both urban hospitals and the rural communities they influenced.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2023

Copyrightjahr

2023

ISBN-Print

978-1-64189-434-0

ISBN-Online

978-1-80270-119-7

Verlag

Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire

Reihe

Places and Spaces, Medieval to Modern

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

198

Produkttyp

Monographie