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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Contexts and Transcultural Networks -- PART ONE The Geopolitics of Italian Jewry between the 15th and 16th Centuries. The Structures -- 1 Demography and Geographic Distribution -- How Many Jews Were There in Italy? -- Where Were They? The Great Northward Migration -- Legal Status and Relations with the Christian Authorities: the Issue of Moneylending -- Jews in Court |
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2 Settlements and Networks. The Topography and Characteristics of Italy's Judaisms -- In the Papal States: The Marches -- The Case of Ancona: A "Trading Nation", or the Privileges of the Levantines -- Multiple Identities. The Marranos -- Bologna under the Popes and Ferrara under the House of Este -- The Case of Ferrara, a Tolerant City and Its Marrano Community -- The Umbria Region of the Papal States -- The Other Italian States. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany -- The Exceptional Case of Livorno, the City without a Ghetto -- Northern Italy. Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria -- Venice, the Cosmopolitan City |
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Printing Jewish Books: a Competitive Christian Business -- 3 Women in the History of Italian Jews -- Marriage, Family, and the Role of Women -- The Extraordinary Story of a Marrano Woman. Beatriz Mendes de Luna/Gracia Nasi and the Other Women of Her Family -- 4 The First Trauma. The New Arrivals in Italy after 1492 -- The Expulsion from Spain -- The Arrivals in Italy -- Clashes, Contention, Hostility -- Conflicts, Agreements, Coexistence. The Emblematic Case of Rome -- Marranos in Rome. Pedro Furtado and Jacome de Fonseca -- Towards Confinement -- PART TWO The Invention of the Ghettos |
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5 The Second Trauma. The Birth of the Ghettos: Geography and Chronology -- Enclosures, Seraglios, and Cloisters for the Jews -- An "Absurd and Unseemly" Coexistence. The New Anti-Jewish Legislation -- Rome. Strategies for Survival and Freedom of Movement -- The Geography and Chronology of the Ghettos in Italy -- The Casa dei Catecumeni and the Conversion of the Jews -- Forced Baptisms -- The Social and Symbolic Value of Jewish Converts -- 6 Jewish Culture and Christian Culture -- Jewish Culture and Books: The Holocaust of the Talmud -- The Kabbalah -- Judaism and Magic -- The World of Culture |
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Leon Modena/Jehudah, a Double Personality -- Simone Luzzatto, a Rationalist Skeptic -- Debora Ascarelli, the "Clever Bee" -- Sara Copio Sullam, "the Beautiful Jewess" -- Souls, Demons, Reincarnations -- Towards the Age of the Enlightenment. Tranquillo Vita Corcos and the Amulets -- PART THREE The Age of Emancipation -- 7 The Turning Point of the 18th Century -- The Paradoxes of the Age of Emancipation -- A Three-Way Relationship: The States, the Church, and the Jews -- Jews and Reforms -- Jewish Culture and the Enlightenment. Benedetto Frizzi, Isacco Reggio and Beniamino Foà |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The Problems of Acculturation. Isacco Lampronti |
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Jews -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
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Ethnic relations
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Ethnic relations.
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Jews.
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Italy -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Italy.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000586688 |
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1000586685 |
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