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Revista Istorică REVISTA ISTORICĂ SERIE NOUĂ TOMUL XXX, NR. 1–6 ianuarie – decembrie 2019 SUMAR WELFARE AND SOCIAL PRACTICES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT. THE CASE-STUDIES OF SOUTHERN ITALY AND ROMANIA GEMMA COLESANTI, MIRIAM PALOMBA, The Sacrum Infirmarium of the Convent of San Gregorio Armeno .......................................................................................................... 5 MÁRIA PAKUCS-WILLCOCKS, Urban Governance and Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Transylvania......................................................................................................................... 17 VITTORIA FIORELLI, Charité et honneur. Le finacement des dots à Naples au cours de l’Ancien Régime .................................................................................................................. 31 LIDIA COTOVANU, (Se) soigner à l’âge de l’oralité. Quelles sources pour l’étude des pratiques d’assistance sociale aux pays de Valachie et de Moldavie des XVe–XVIIe siècles? ............ 45 GIOVANNI LOMBARDI, Brotherhood or Guild? Solidarity, Mutuality and Representation among Confraternities, Assistance and Communities in Modern Age Naples................................. 65 PAOLA AVALLONE, Monti frumentari in the Kingdom of Naples (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries)............................................................................................................................. 81 RAFFAELLA SALVEMINI, The Network of Hospitals in the Kingdom of Naples at the Time of the Bourbons.................................................................................................................... 107 NICOLETA ROMAN, Children’s Health and the Foundation of the Children’s Hospital in Bucharest (1830s–1860s)...................................................................................................................... 125 MIOARA ANTON, The Romanian Version of the Mount of Piety. Social and Economic Realities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century .......................................................................... 153 CAMELIA ZAVARACHE, “Nowadays Many Mothers Only Want to Be Chirping Skylarks, like Ibsen’s Nora.” The Debates Concerning the Legalization of Abortion in Interwar Romania...... 161 LUCIANA DE PASCALE, The Italian Welfare System and Immigration: Access to Measures of Social Protection.............................................................................................................. 179 NOTE ŞI RECENZII * * * Dragă domnule şi prietene. Scrisori către Arsène Henry, ministru al Franţei la Bucureşti (1897– 1904), de la Sabina Cantacuzino, Clara Haskil, Maria Pillat, Anna Kretzulescu-Lahovary, „Revista istorică”, tom XXX, 2019, nr. 1–6, p. 1–203 2 Maria Cantacuzino şi Olga Cantacuzino-Miclescu, ed. şi trad. FLORIN ŢURCANU, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2018, 207 p. (Alin Ciupală); ZOLTÁN PÉTER BAGI, Stories of the Long Turkish War, GlobeEdit, Beau Bassin, 2018, 152 p. (Florin Nicolae Ardelean); STEFANO BOTTONI, Stalin’s Legacy in Romania. The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960, Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, 2018, 398 p. (Cristian Vasile); OANA MIHAELA TĂMAŞ, Între uz şi abuz de alcool în România. Sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului al XX-lea, Edit. Academiei Române, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj-Napoca, 2015, 307 p. (Iuliu-Marius Morariu)............. 195 HISTORICAL REVIEW NEW SERIES TOME XXX, NOS. 1–6 January – December 2019 CONTENTS WELFARE AND SOCIAL PRACTICES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT. THE CASE-STUDIES OF SOUTHERN ITALY AND ROMANIA GEMMA COLESANTI, MIRIAM PALOMBA, The Sacrum Infirmarium of the Convent of San Gregorio Armeno .......................................................................................................... 5 MÁRIA PAKUCS-WILLCOCKS, Urban Governance and Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Transylvania......................................................................................................................... 17 VITTORIA FIORELLI, Charity and Honor. Dowry Financing in Naples during the Ancien Régime ................................................................................................................................. 31 LIDIA COTOVANU, Healing in the Age of Orality. What Are the Sources for the Study of Social Assistance Practices in Wallachia and Moldavia in the Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries?..... 45 GIOVANNI LOMBARDI, Brotherhood or Guild? Solidarity, Mutuality and Representation among Confraternities, Assistance and Communities in Modern Age Naples................................. 65 PAOLA AVALLONE, Monti frumentari in the Kingdom of Naples (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries)............................................................................................................................. 81 RAFFAELLA SALVEMINI, The Network of Hospitals in the Kingdom of Naples at the Time of the Bourbons.................................................................................................................... 107 NICOLETA ROMAN, Children’s Health and the Foundation of the Children’s Hospital in Bucharest (1830s–1860s)...................................................................................................................... 125 MIOARA ANTON, The Romanian Version of the Mount of Piety. Social and Economic Realities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century .......................................................................... 153 CAMELIA ZAVARACHE, “Nowadays Many Mothers Only Want to Be Chirping Skylarks, like Ibsen’s Nora.” The Debates Concerning the Legalization of Abortion in Interwar Romania...... 161 LUCIANA DE PASCALE, The Italian Welfare System and Immigration: Access to Measures of Social Protection.............................................................................................................. 179 NOTES AND REVIEWS * * * Dragă domnule şi prietene. Scrisori către Arsène Henry, ministru al Franţei la Bucureşti (1897–1904), de la Sabina Cantacuzino, Clara Haskil, Maria Pillat, Anna Kretzulescu- Lahovary, Maria Cantacuzino şi Olga Cantacuzino-Miclescu (Dear Sir and Friend. „Revista istorică”, tom XXX, 2019, nr. 1–6, p. 1–203 4 Letters to Arsène Henry, Minister of France in Bucharest, 1897–1904, from Sabina Cantacuzino, Clara Haskil, Maria Pillat, Anna Kretzulescu-Lahovary, Maria Cantacuzino and Olga Cantacuzino-Miclescu), ed. and trans. by FLORIN ŢURCANU, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2018, 207 pp. (Alin Ciupală); ZOLTÁN PÉTER BAGI, Stories of the Long Turkish War, GlobeEdit, Beau Bassin, 2018, 152 pp. (Florin Nicolae Ardelean); STEFANO BOTTONI, Stalin’s Legacy in Romania. The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960, Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, 2018, 398 pp. (Cristian Vasile); OANA MIHAELA TĂMAŞ, Între uz şi abuz de alcool în România. Sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului al XX-lea (Between Alcohol Use and Abuse in Romania. The End of the Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century), Edit. Academiei Române, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj-Napoca, 2015, 307 pp. (Iuliu- Marius Morariu) .................................................................................................................. 195 WELFARE AND SOCIAL PRACTICES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT. THE CASE-STUDIES OF SOUTHERN ITALY AND ROMANIA THE SACRUM INFIRMARIUM OF THE CONVENT OF SAN GREGORIO ARMENO* GEMMA COLESANTI**, MIRIAM PALOMBA*** INTRODUCTION From the analysis of the edited documentation1 of one of the oldest and richest convents in Naples, at least until the fourteenth century, dedicated to San Gregorio Armeno (Saint Gregory of Armenia) a series of questions arose that suggested some reflections on the strategy, activism and feminine management of a monastic space open to the city. First of all, we asked ourselves how this enormous patrimony managed exclusively by nuns was formed; and then how it was possible to measure the protagonism and authority of these nuns both within the community and within the city of Naples itself. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONVENT Before entering into the merits of the text, it seems useful to quickly go over some data that help to frame the monastic body within the history of the city of Naples. The convent is still located in the heart of the ancient city and its history begins in the eighth century. The foundation is probably due to a group of nuns of the order of Saint Basil, who fled Constantinople after 729, almost certainly following the development of the iconoclastic struggle. The nuns arrived in Naples, found hospitality near the diaconia of San Gennaro all’Olmo and organized themselves in * This article is in part the result of Miriam Palomba’s master thesis discussed at L’Orientale University of Naples, and is written under the framework of the project Paisajes monásticos. Representaciones y virtualizaciones de la realidad espiritual y material en el Mediterráneo Occidental (s. VI–XVI), 2019–2022 (PGC2018-095350-B-I00). ** Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale – CNR), Naples; [email protected]. *** University of Barcelona; [email protected]. 1 Jole Mazzoleni, Le pergamene del monastero di S. Gregorio Armeno di Napoli, Naples, 1973; Le pergamene di San Gregorio Armeno (1141–1198) (hereafter: SGA), [vol. I], ed. by Rosalba Pilone, Salerno, 1996; SGA, vol. II, (1168–1265), ed. by Carla Vetere, Salerno, 2000; SGA, vol. III, (1267–1306), ed. by Carla Vetere, Salerno, 2006. „Revista istorică”, tom XXX, 2019, nr. 1–6, p. 5–16 6 Gemma Colesanti, Miriam Palomba
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