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

本项目分析了文艺复兴时期的威尼斯人如何看待、互动，并在更广泛的城市层面上照顾和管理他们人口中老龄化和较贫穷的非精英部分，以及他们如何理解和寻求减轻老年的影响和迹象。它试图揭示老年人是如何融入城市社区的，这是如何受到性别影响的，以及它如何与“威尼斯神话”和城市作为老人统治的地位相关。该项目将集中在三个关键领域：城市的慈善关怀网络，特别是它的ospizi和ospedali；家庭空间（通常与工作空间重叠）；还有一些材料，比如廉价的印刷品和蜉蝣，它们可能已经确定并提供了缓解与老年有关的变化和疾病的疗法，因此，老年的概念被构建了起来。它将利用一系列资源，包括威尼斯国家档案馆的ospizi和ospedali记录、教区记录、印刷材料和服装书籍、艺术品和物质文化。通过关注弱势民众，扩大对早期现代老年和老龄化的研究，论文将增加对非精英和较贫穷威尼斯人的制度、规范和经验的研究，特别是对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，以及家庭和机构空间之间关系的研究

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