L’assistenza ospedaliera in Puglia: istituzioni, archivi e fonti (secoli XIV-XVII)
Hospital assistance in Apulia: institutions, archives and sources (14th-17th centuries)
Abstract
This essay aims to reconstruct the origins of the assistance in Apulia between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. A vast network of welfare institutions corresponds to a very diverse audience of needy people, within which ecclesiastical and lay interventions intersect the sphere of private life. In particular, the focus is on hospital assistance through the analysis of the sources stored in the main archives of the region. Apulia has always represented, in the collective imagination, a bridge between the West and the East. Furthermore, It was the destination and stage of pilgrimage routes along which numerous welfare structures arise and operate between the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age.
Il contributo ricostruisce le origini dell’assistenza in Puglia tra XIV e XVII secolo. A una platea di bisognosi assai variegata corrisponde una fitta rete di istituzioni assistenziali all’interno della quale gli interventi ecclesiastici e laici intersecano la sfera del privato. In particolare, l’attenzione è rivolta all’assistenza ospedaliera attraverso l’analisi delle fonti conservate nei principali archivi della regione. Un territorio che da sempre rappresenta nell’immaginario collettivo un ponte tra Occidente e Oriente, meta e tappa di percorsi di pellegrinaggio lungo i quali sorgono e operano, tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna, numerose strutture assistenziali.
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