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  • Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome

    Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life

    by Kenneth Stow ...
    The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the eye of the Pope. Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers. They spoke (Roman) Italian, ate and dressed as did other Romans, and their marital practices reflected Roman noble usage. Rome's Jews were called cives, but ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages

    Confrontation and Response

    by Kenneth Stow ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, toward the Jewish population of Western Europe. Papal consistency, sometimes sorely tried, in observing the canons and the principles announced by St Paul - that Jews were to be a permanent, if disturbing, part of Christian life - helped balance the anxiety felt by members of the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Anna and Tranquillo

    Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions

    by Kenneth Stow ...
    A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the next thirteen days to force her conversion to Catholicism. Anna’s powerful chronicle of her ordeal at ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Feeding the Eternal City

    Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto

    by Kenneth Stow ...
    Series Book 34 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    A surprising history of interfaith collaboration in the Roman Ghetto, where for three centuries Jewish and Christian butchers worked together to provision the city despite the proscriptions of Church law.For Rome’s Jewish population, confined to a ghetto between 1555 and 1870, efforts to secure kosher meat were fraught with challenges. The city’s papal authorities viewed kashrut—the Jewish dietary ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Rome, Pollution and Propriety

    Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity

    Edited by Mark Bradley ...
    Series series British School at Rome Studies
    Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

    by Edward L. Goldberg ...
    In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Redeeming The Prince

    The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    A fresh introduction to—and bold new interpretation of—Machiavelli's PrinceIn Redeeming "The Prince, " one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli also provides a ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    by Hannah Marcus ...
    "Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes." — Times Higher EducationForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

    Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning

    by Christopher S. Celenza ...
    In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The First Ghetto

    Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

    by Alexander Lee ...
    Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeFrom an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.“More than a history of a city, the book is a chronicle of a condition, an elegy for Jewish life lived in the paradox of family flourishing and civic exclusion .... A richly researched history of Italian Jewry and its will to live on.” ―Kirkus ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Acculturation and Its Discontents

    The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion

    by David N. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter Reill, Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.The contributors offer rich portraits of the many vibrant forms of cultural and artistic expression ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

    The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

    by Irina Chernetsky ...
    In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity – Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and ... Read more

    $91.09 USD