Sienese Hospitals within and beyond the City Walls: Charity and the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, 1400-1600

Sarah Loose Guerrero

doi:10.1017/9781802701197

Sienese Hospitals within and beyond the City Walls

Charity and the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, 1400-1600

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Sarah Loose Guerrero, Brigham Young University, Utah

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781802701197
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802701197

Subjects:: Area Studies, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies, History of Medicine
Series:: Places and Spaces, Medieval to Modern

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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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Sienese Hospitals within and beyond the City Walls

Charity and the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, 1400-1600

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - A Most Pious House: Charity and Power in the City
pp 11-42

2 - An Extended Family: Rural Charity and Power in the Contado
pp 43-82

3 - Spaces of Charity Beyond Siena's Borders: The Spedali di Fuori
pp 83-104

4 - Charity and Power in Crisis: Shifting Dynamics
pp 105-134

5 - Power in the Granducato: Santa Maria della Scala and the Medici Grand Dukes
pp 135-170

Epilogue: Santa Maria della Scala's Spaces of Charity after 1600
pp 171-174

Select Bibliography
pp 175-180

Index
pp 181-189

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