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Jews on trial : the Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638 / Katherine Aron-Beller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aron-Beller, Katherine.
- Series:
- Studies in early modern European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inquisition--Italy--Modena--History--17th century.
- Inquisition.
- Jews.
- History.
- Italy--Church history--17th century.
- Italy.
- Church history.
- Jews--Italy--Modena--History--17th century.
- Italy--Modena.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 278 pages : . illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Research on the Papal Inquisition in Italy has tended to centre on trials for heresy, witchcraft and possession of prohibited books, but little is known of the activities of the Inquisition with respect to practising Jews. This book explores the role of the Papal Inquisition in Modena, the status of Jews in the early modern Italian duchy and the fundamental disparity in Inquisitorial procedure regarding professing Jews. It also uses the detailed testimony to be found in trial transcripts to analyse Jewish interaction with Christian society in an early modern European community.
- Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history - the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto. This book will appeal to scholars of inquisitorial studies, social and cultural interaction in early modern Europe, Jewish Italian social history and anti-Semitism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 the Inquisition and disciplining Jews
- Jews, Papal Inquisitors, and the Estense Dukes
- Procedure and reaction
- Part 2 a study of Jewish offences in different settings
- The Jewish household: Jewish masters and Christian servants
- The Piazza: verbal offences on the streets of Modena
- Part 3 micro-history
- The Jew's balcony: a tale of a young Jewess's flirtation with Christianity
- The Pingolo: a locus for Jewish fantasy
- Proselytizing at Purim.
- ISBN:
- 9780719085192
- 0719085195
- OCLC:
- 721883889
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