Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews

Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780691233413
ISBN-13 : 0691233411
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews by : Emily Michelson

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. In Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews, Emily Michelson demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism. Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscripts, Michelson reconstructs the dynamics of weekly forced preaching in Rome. As the Catholic Church began to embark on worldwide missions, sermons to Jews offered a unique opportunity to define and defend its new triumphalist, global outlook. They became a point of prestige in Rome. The city’s most important organizations invested in maintaining these spectacles, and foreign tourists eagerly attended them. The title of “Preacher to the Jews” could make a man’s career. The presence of Christian spectators, Roman and foreign, was integral to these sermons, and preachers played to the gallery. Conversionary sermons also provided an intellectual veneer to mask ongoing anti-Jewish aggressions. In response, Jews mounted a campaign of resistance, using any means available. Examining the history and content of sermons to Jews over two and a half centuries, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews argues that conversionary preaching to Jews played a fundamental role in forming early modern Catholic identity.

City of Echoes

City of Echoes
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Publisher : Icon Books
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9781837731077
ISBN-13 : 1837731071
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis City of Echoes by : Jessica Wärnberg

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.

Roman Pilgrimage

Roman Pilgrimage
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Publisher : Constellation
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780465027699
ISBN-13 : 0465027695
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Roman Pilgrimage by : George Weigel

The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization. In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on each day’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, typically unexplored treasures—artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders—appear in their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities. A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.

The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry

The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9783111049151
ISBN-13 : 3111049159
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry by : Martin Borýsek

The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well as social and economic patterns. The contributions in this volume aim to explore crucial questions concerning the self-perception and identity of early modern Italian Jews from new perspectives and angles.

Surviving the Ghetto

Surviving the Ghetto
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9789004431195
ISBN-13 : 9004431195
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Surviving the Ghetto by : Serena Di Nepi

In Surviving the Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi recounts the first fifty years of the ghetto, exploring the social and cultural strategies that allowed the Jews of Rome to preserve their identity and resist Catholic conversion over three long centuries (1555-1870).

Shakespeare and the Jews

Shakespeare and the Jews
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780231541879
ISBN-13 : 0231541872
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare and the Jews by : James Shapiro

First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. In a new preface, Shapiro reflects upon what he has learned about intolerance since the first publication of Shakespeare and the Jews.

Early Modern Jewish Civilization

Early Modern Jewish Civilization
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9781040004784
ISBN-13 : 1040004784
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Early Modern Jewish Civilization by : David Graizbord

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization—that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca. 1391–1789) in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and key nodes of the Iberian Empires in the Americas. Each chapter explores key factors that shaped both distinctive early modern Jewish communities and a remarkably coalescent and far broader community-of-communities. The contributors engage and answer the following questions: What do historians mean by “early modernity,” and to what extent does the concept illuminate the history and culture(s) of Jews from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment? What were the general demographic contours of the Jewish diaspora over this period and how did they change? How did culture, politics, technology, economics, and gender shape diasporic Jewish communities across eastern and western Europe and the New World over the course of some 400 years? Ultimately, the work renders a portrait of coherence and diversity, continuity and discontinuity, in early modern Jewish life within and across temporal and geographic boundaries. Early Modern Jewish Civilization is essential reading for all students of Jewish history and civilization and early modern history more broadly.

An Answer to the Jews

An Answer to the Jews
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 73
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ISBN-10 : 9781465588449
ISBN-13 : 1465588442
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis An Answer to the Jews by : Tertullian

Rome's Challenge

Rome's Challenge
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Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 1572580526
ISBN-13 : 9781572580527
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Rome's Challenge by : Teach Services

Why do Protestants keep Sunday? From the Catholic Mirror, the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Maryland.

After the Deportation

After the Deportation
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 487
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ISBN-10 : 9781108478908
ISBN-13 : 1108478905
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Deportation by : Philip Nord

Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.