IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 832: Memory and Hospitals, II: Archives, Written Records, Iconographic Evidences
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Alle origini del welfare (XIII-XVI secolo), PRIN 2015 / New Communities of Interpretation, ISCH COST Action IS1301 |
---|---|
Organiser: | Thomas Frank, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Pavia |
Moderator/Chair: | Marina Gazzini, Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali, Università degli Studi di Parma |
Paper 832-a | Memory and Images: Iconographic Sources for the Study of Hospital Architecture in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General, Art History - General, Heraldry |
Paper 832-b | Notaries and Hospital Memory in Barcelona and Naples (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History |
Paper 832-c | The Institutional Memory of a Hospital and Confraternity: The Archives of Santa Maria dei Battuti in Treviso, Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Social History |
Abstract | In the Middle Ages hospitals had a remarkable and complex role: places of care, religious practice, and social interaction. Hospitals were at the heart of public and ecclesiastical policies; they were also a strong attraction pole for human and economic resources capable of forging the physiognomy of cities and territories. As 'monuments/documents' of the society that produced them, hospitals will be at the centre of two linked sessions discussing biographies, policies, and ideologies of charity on the one hand, and archives, written records, iconographic sources on the other. This session, in particular, is composed of three papers focusing on Southern and Northern Italy (Naples and Treviso) and Barcelona (Catalonia), which will analyse from different perspectives - history of documents and history of art - the processes of sedimentation of a hospital's institutional memory. |