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

该项目分析文艺复兴时期的威尼斯人如何在更广泛的城市一级看待、互动、照顾和管理人口中老龄化和较贫穷的非精英群体，以及他们如何理解和寻求减轻老龄化的影响和迹象。它试图揭开年长的波波拉尼是如何融入城市社区的，这是以什么方式受到性别的影响，以及它可能与“威尼斯神话”和这座城市作为老年政府的地位有什么关系。该项目将聚焦于三个关键领域：城市的慈善护理网络，特别是它的斯皮齐人和奥斯佩达利人；家庭空间(经常与工作空间重叠)；以及廉价的印刷品和短暂的材料，这些材料可能已经识别并提供了缓解老年相关变化和疾病的补救措施，因此通过这些材料构建了老年概念。它将利用一系列来源，包括威尼斯档案馆的Spizi和Ospedali的记录、教区记录、印刷材料和服装书籍、艺术品和材料文化。除了扩大关于早期现代老年和老龄化的学术研究外，通过关注弱势人口，论文还将增加关于非精英和较贫穷威尼斯人的机构、规范和经历的学术研究，特别是他们之间的性别和慈善运作方式，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的关系

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