Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols

ISBN-13: 9781316627471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 233 str.

Flora Cassen

Opis

This book examines the discriminatory marking of Jews in Renaissance Italy and the impacts this had on the Jewish communities.

Recenzje

'… thought-provoking … An important addition to debates on anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, the book will appeal to scholars of religion interested in understanding how Christians attempted to place one religious minority apart from the majority during the Italian Renaissance.' Deborah Kaye, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Origins and symbolic meaning of the Jewish badge; 2. Dukes, friars and Jews in fifteenth-century Milan; 3. Strangers at home: the Jewish badge in Spanish Milan (1512–1597); 4. From black to yellow: loss of solidarity among the Jews of Piedmont; 5. No Jews in Genoa; Conclusion.