The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence : The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community / Stefanie B. Siegmund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegmund, Stefanie B., Author.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (656 p.) : 11 tables, 3 figures, 9 illustrations, 2 maps

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence is a work about Italian Jews, Christians, and the institutions and policies that organized their relationship. It sets the 1570 decision of the Medici government to ghettoize the Jews of Tuscany in the context of early modern statecraft and in the climate of the Catholic (or Counter-) Reformation. While readers have had access to studies of the ghettos of Rome and Venice, this is the first study of the Jews of Tuscany available in English, and the first and only study of the Florentine ghetto based on sustained archival research. The story of the forced ghettoization of Tuscan Jews allows the author to explore the "spatialization of power," the construction of Jewish community, and the reorganization of gender roles, leading to three broad arguments of great significance to readers interested in Italian history, Jewish history, urban history, and the history of women.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps and Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

A Chronology of Select Events Related to the Ghettoization

Note on Translation, Dates and Currency

Introduction: Early Modern Boundaries and the Place of the Jews

Part I: The Segregation of Jews and the Spatialization of Power

1. Residential Segregation: Religious and Political Contexts

2. State-Building and the Status of the Jews

3. Before the Ghetto: The Settlement and Connections of Jews in Tuscany

Part II: The Construction of the Ghetto

4. Staging the Expulsion: The Proceedings Against the Jews

5. Locating, Financing and Constructing the Ghetto

6. Populating the Ghetto

Part III: A New Tuscan Commune and Religious Community

7. A New Tuscan Commune: Centralization and Semi-Autonomy in the Medici State

8. Measuring Lengths and Distances in the Ghetto and City: Economic Parameters

9. From Virilocal to Local: Marriage in the Florentine Ghetto

10. The Developing Early Modern Jewish Community and the Continuing Redefinition of Jewishness

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2502-8