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Sienese Hospitals Within and Beyond the City Walls

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

Av Sarah Loose Guerrero

Del i serien 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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Sarah Loose Guerrero is an Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA

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In the later Middle Ages, the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Italy, was a force to be reckoned with. The hospital is the topic of the monograph by Sarah Loose Guerrero, who thus contributes to the study of charitable institutions and their socio-political roles in late medieval and early modern Italy. Focusing on one of Siena’s most important charitable institutions, the book examines its role within the city and across the countryside through its rural possessions. Guerrero builds on a well-established historiography, both on Italian Renaissance hospitals in general and on this institution in particular, yet her work brings a fresh point of view by emphasizing its rural patrimony and the ways in which it functioned as a bridge between urban and rural spheres, and by adopting a long-term perspective.[...]Sienese Hospitals is primarily a socio-political study rather than a history of medicine or patient care. It examines how the hospital functioned within broader urban and regional political frameworks. The concept of “geographies of power” serves as a central analytical lens, illustrating how Santa Maria della Scala’s influence extended far beyond the city walls. This decentralized power structure allowed the hospital to operate both as a civic institution and semiautonomous entity with its own governing mechanisms and as a wealthy landowner.One of the book’s key contributions is its detailed analysis of the hospital’s vast landholdings and the economic role these played in its operations.[...]Overall, Sienese Hospitals Within and Beyond the City Walls is an important and well-researched study that makes a significant contribution to the fields of socio-political history, economic history, and institutional history of health care. Guerrero effectively demonstrates how Santa Maria della Scala was a key player in Siena’s civic, economic, and political life. Her exploration adds an important dimension to our understanding of urban-rural interactions in Renaissance Italy. This book will be of great interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Italy, hospital history, and the broader study of geographies of power.

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