Catholic spectacle and Rome's Jews : early modern conversion and resistance /

Michelson, Emily,

Catholic spectacle and Rome's Jews : early modern conversion and resistance / Emily Michelson. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022] - xiii, 331 pages ; 25 cm

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.

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Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.
Catholic Church--Liturgy--History.--Italy--Rome
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism


Jews--Conversion to Christianity--History.--Italy--Rome
Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church.
RELIGION / Judaism / General.
Interfaith relations.
Judaism.
Religion.
Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church
Jews--History--Italy--1500-1800
Sermons--History and criticism
Missions to Jews--Italy
Christianity and antisemitism--Italy--Rome
Christian converts from Judaism--Italy--Rome


Rome (Italy)--Religion--History.
ROME--Religion--Histoire.
Rome (Empire)
Italy--Religious life and customs


History.

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