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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Named Person: | Benedict, Pope; Benedict, Pope; Benedikt, Papst |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marina Caffiero; Lydia G Cochrane |
ISBN: | 9780520254510 0520254511 |
OCLC Number: | 712114164 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Italian. |
Description: | x, 317 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Negotiated relations: popes, the church, the Jews -- Favor fidei: the birth of a new jurisprudence -- Offerings of Jewish infants to the Catholic faith -- Cruel grandparents -- Denunciations and retractions -- Baptisms, doctrines, rites, and symbols -- Plural identities: neophytes male and female. |
Series Title: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. |
Other Titles: | Battesimi forzati. |
Responsibility: | Marina Caffiero ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. |
Abstract:
Makes use of 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. This title documents the regularity with which Jews were abducted from the Roman ghetto and pressured to accept baptism.
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