Getting on in a gerontocracy: charity, gender, and ageing popolani in early modern Venice

在老年统治中生存：现代早期威尼斯的慈善、性别和老龄化民众

• 批准号: 2645866
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2645866
• 关键词: Getting; gerontocracy; charity; gender; ageing

This project analyses how Renaissance Venetians perceived, interacted with and, at a broader city level, cared for andmanaged the ageing and poorer non-elite part of their population, and how they understood and sought to mitigate theeffects and signs of old age. It seeks to unpick how older popolani were woven into the city community, in what ways thiswas influenced by gender, and how it may have related to the 'myth of Venice' and the city's status as a gerontocracy.The project will focus on three key areas: the city's network of charitable care, especially its ospizi and ospedali;domestic space (which often overlapped with workspace); and material such as cheap print and ephemera that mayhave identified and offered remedies to alleviate changes and ailments associated with old age, and via which conceptsof old age were therefore constructed. It will draw on a range of sources including the records of ospizi and ospedali atthe Archivio di Stato di Venezia, parish records, printed material and costume books, artworks, and material culture. Aswell as expanding scholarship on early modern old age and ageing, by focusing on vulnerable popolani the thesis willadd to scholarship on the institutions, norms and experiences of non-elite and poorer Venetians, particularly the ways inwhich gender and charity operated among them, and the resources via which the city's vulnerable made their lives, aswell as on the relationships between domestic and institutional spaces

该项目分析了文艺复兴时期的威尼斯人如何在更广泛的城市层面上看待、互动以及照顾和管理其人口中的老龄化和贫困非精英部分，以及他们如何理解和寻求减轻老年的影响和迹象。它试图揭示老年人如何融入城市社区，这在哪些方面受到性别的影响，以及它与“威尼斯神话”和城市作为老年统治国家的地位有何关系。该项目将重点关注三个关键问题区域：城市的慈善关怀网络，尤其是 ospizi 和 ospedali；家庭空间（通常与工作空间重叠）；诸如廉价印刷品和蜉蝣之类的材料可能已经确定并提供了缓解与老年相关的变化和疾病的补救措施，并因此构建了老年概念。它将利用一系列来源，包括威尼斯国家档案馆的奥斯皮兹和奥斯佩达利记录、教区记录、印刷材料和服装书籍、艺术品和物质文化。除了扩大对早期现代老年和老龄化的学术研究之外，通过关注弱势民众，该论文还将增加对非精英和贫困威尼斯人的制度、规范和经验的学术研究，特别是性别和慈善在他们中间运作的方式，以及城市弱势群体赖以生存的资源，以及家庭空间和机构空间之间的关系