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Forced baptisms : histories of Jews, Christians, and converts in papal Rome / Marina Caffiero ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Van Pelt Library BX1548.R6 C3413 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caffiero, Marina.
- Standardized Title:
- Battesimi forzati. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Catholic converts.
- Rome (Italy)--Church history.
- Rome (Italy).
- Catholic converts--Italy--Rome--History.
- Jews--Italy--Rome--History.
- Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758.
- Benedict.
- Papacy--History.
- Papacy.
- Italy--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- x, 317 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Negotiated relations: popes, the church, the Jews
- Favor fidei: the birth of a new jurisprudence
- Offerings of Jewish infants to the Catholic faith
- Cruel grandparents
- Denunciations and retractions
- Baptisms, doctrines, rites, and symbols
- Plural identities: neophytes male and female.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520254510
- 0520254511
- OCLC:
- 712114164
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