
The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy
From the Renaissance to the Restoration
Marina Caffiero(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-1-032-03669-4 (ISBN)
Description
Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects - demographic, social, economic, cultural, and religious - can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European, or better still, global system of Jewish communities and populations; and, that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues as ghettoization, antisemitism, the Inquisition, the history of conversion, and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy, focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history.
This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history, early modern Italy, early modern Jewish and Italian culture, and early modern society.
This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history, early modern Italy, early modern Jewish and Italian culture, and early modern society.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-03669-4 (9781032036694)
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From the Renaissance to the Restoration
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From the Renaissance to the Restoration
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From the Renaissance to the Restoration
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Persons
Marina Caffiero is honorary professor of History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. A scholar of the social and cultural history of early modern and modern Europe, her research focuses on religious history and the relationship between politics and religion in Italy and Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, the history of minorities, particularly Jewish minorities, gender history, and women's writings. She has published numerous monographs and edited collections as well as articles in Italian and other languages.
Content
Chapter 1: Demography and Geographic Distribution / Chapter 2: Settlements and Networks. The Topography and Characteristics of Italy's Judaisms / Chapter 3: Women in the History of Italian Jews / Chapter 4: The First Trauma. The New Arrivals in Italy After 1492 / Chapter 5: The Second Trauma. The Birth of the Ghettos: Geography and Chronology / Chapter 6: Jewish Culture and Christian Culture / Chapter 7: The Turning Point of the 18th Century / Chapter 8: The Contradictions of the "Happy Regeneration" of the Jews