Competing Visions of the State and Social Welfare
The Medici Dukes, the Bigallo Magistrates, and Local Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10415985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Terpstra (0000-0003-0737-370X, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4, Part 2 |
| Pages | 1319-1355 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1262156 |
| PMID | 11858282 |
| OpenAlex | W2315776989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 1542, Florence's Duke Cosimo I established a magistracy to supervise territorial hospitals and consolidate poor relief. Tense relations between the magistracy and these hospitals demonstrate the barriers to bureaucratic centralization in the sixteenth-century state, and underscore the fact that the shift from traditional charity to 'new philanthropy' was as much geographical and cultural as temporal. Tensions between the magistracy and successive Medici Dukes also demonstrate how in negotiations between bureaucrats and local communities territorial rulers could play both sides to advance their personal authority, and could learn from the difficulties of one magistracy how better to design another
Art · Economic history · Political science · Poor relief · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Vision · Welfare · Welfare state · Anthropology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |