Forced baptisms : histories of Jews, Christians, and converts in papal Rome
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Forced baptisms : histories of Jews, Christians, and converts in papal Rome
（S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies）
University of California Press, c2012
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Battesimi forzati
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Battesimi forzati
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book was previously published as Battesimi forzati by Marina Caffero, Viella, 2005." --t.p. verso
Translated from the Italian
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church's policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity. Marina Caffiero, one of the first historians permitted access to important archives, sets individual stories of denunciation, betrayal, pleading, and conflict into historical context to highlight the Church's actions and the Jewish response. Caffiero documents the regularity with which Jews were abducted from the Roman ghetto and pressured to accept baptism. She analyzes why some Jewish men, interested in gaining a business advantage, were more inclined to accept conversion than the women. This book exposes the complexity of relations between the papacy and the Jews, revealing the Church not as a monolithic entity, but as a network of competing institutions, and affirming the Roman Jews as active agents of resistance.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Negotiated Relations: Popes, the Church, the Jews 2. Favor fidei: The Birth of a New Jurisprudence 3. Offerings of Jewish Infants to the Catholic Faith 4. Cruel Grandparents 5. Denunciations and Retractions 6. Baptisms, Doctrines, Rites, and Symbols 7. Plural Identities: Neophytes Male and Female Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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