Jewish life in early modern Rome : challenge, conversion, and private life /: challenge, conversion, and private life. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth Stow.
• Authors: Stow, Kenneth R
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Dedication; PART 1: THE PAPAL CHALLENGE; I The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of sixteenth century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud (reset and updated); II The consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet; III Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris; IV The good of the church, the good of the state: the Popes and Jewish money; PART 2: IN SEARCH OF CONVERSION; V Church, conversion, and tradition: the problem of Jewish conversion in sixteenth century Italy VI A tale of uncertainties: converts in the Roman ghettoVII Neofiti and their families: or, perhaps, the good of the state; VIII Delitto e castigo nello stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 1572 al 1659; PART 3: THE JEWS OF ROME; IX Prossimità o distanza: etnicitÃ, sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo; X Ethnic rivalry or melting pot: The â#x80;#x9C;edotâ#x80;#x9D; in the Roman ghetto; XI Ethnic amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early modern Jewish Rome; XII Abramo ben Aron Scazzocchio: another kind of rabbi XIII The knotty problem of Shem Tov Soporto: male honor, marital initiation, and disciplinary structures in mid-sixteenth century Jewish Rome (in memory of Giuseppe Sermoneta)XIV The new fashioned from the old: parallels in public and learned memory and practice in sixteenth-century Jewish Rome; XV Corporate double talk: Kehillat Kodesh and Universitas in the Roman Jewish sixteenth century environment; XVI Marriages are made in heaven: marriage and the individual in the Roman Jewish ghetto; XVII Writing in Hebrew, thinking in Italian
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.892/404563209031; Jews -- Italy -- Rome -- History; Jews -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century; Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Popes -- Temporal power; Jewish converts from Christianity -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 16th century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Rome (Italy) -- Ethnic relations; Electronic books; Electronic books; Relations -- Judaism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351154994; 1351154990
• Related ISBNs: 9780815389941
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 01, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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