Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews : : Early Modern Conversion and Resistance / / Emily Michelson.

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. They were made to m...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 11 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on the Text
  • Introduction, with Pig
  • Chapter 1 The World of Conversion in Early Modern Rome
  • Chapter 2 How Sermons to Jews Worked
  • Chapter 3 The Careers of Preachers
  • Chapter 4 Sermons to Jews and the Public
  • Chapter 5 Preaching Traditions and Change
  • Chapter 6 Saints, Turks, and Heretics: Gregorio Boncompagni Corcos and Early Modern Catholicism
  • Chapter 7 Jewish Responses
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A note on the type