Brill Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500: 251/12 (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 251/12)

In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 - 1500, Carla Keyvanian reconstructs three centuries of urban history by focusing on public hospitals, state institutions that were urban expressions of sovereignty, characterized by a distinguishing architecture and built in prime urban locations. Review "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. About the Author Carla Keyvanian, Ph.D., MIT, is Associate Professor of Architectural History at Auburn University. She has published articles on Roman urbanism and the representation of cities as well as on the historiography of architectural and urban history.