Poder local, govern i assistència pública: el cas de Tarragona

Identifier:  TDX:1892

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1892

Authors:  Barceló Prats, Josep

Abstract:
In 1464 the Archbishop of Tarragona, Pedro de Urrea, made public the founding of the Hospital of San Pablo y Santa Tecla of Tarragona. This document established the ordinances that had to govern an institution that has survived to this day. This document is also a clear example of how the control of the hospital became a fact essential to perpetuate the stability of a consensus political model but also very fragile. Over time, this way of managing the common good was assumed by the Catalan population; and the hospital, as guarantor of the system was transformed into an element of cultural identity. The hospital of Tarragona, like other Catalans hospitals, is yet another example that helps develop a social protection model, very specifically, that in Catalonia resisted all kinds of historical changes due to social and political value that the hospital took in the collective imagination of the population.