Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews (eBook)

Early Modern Conversion and Resistance

Emily Michelson (Autor)

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2022
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23329-1 (ISBN)

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A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting 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 "e;Preacher to the Jews"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Adversus Judaeos • Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty) • Alessandro Farnese (cardinal) • Allusion • Annales Ecclesiastici • anti-Judaism • Apologetics • Apologeticus • Arab Christians • Athanasius Kircher • Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore • Bereavement in Judaism • blood libel • Book of Lamentations • Calendar of saints • Calvinism • Canonization • Canon law (Catholic Church) • Cardinal Vicar • carmelites • Catechism • Catharism • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Catholic Laity • Catholic missions • catholic theology • catholic world • Chaplain • Christ • Christian Apologetics • Christian Hebraist • Christian Humanism • Christianity • Christianity and Judaism • Christianity and violence • Christology • Churches of Rome • Church Fathers • College of Cardinals • Confessionalization • Confraternity • conversion narrative • Conversion of the Jews • conversion to Christianity • Conversion to Judaism • copts • Counter-Reformation • crypto-Judaism • Cum nimis absurdum • deicide • Diocese • dowry • Epistle • Farce • Franciscans • Frequent confession • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Giulio Bartolocci • Guido Reni • Hagiography • Halakha • Hebrew Alphabet • Heresy • Holy City • Ignatius of Loyola • infidel • Inquisition • Italian Jews • I Wish (manhwa) • Jerusalem Talmud • Jewish Christian • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish Education • Jewish emancipation • Jewish History • Jewish Mysticism • Jewish Studies • Jews • Judaism • Justification (theology) • Kabbalah • Lurianic Kabbalah • Lutheranism • Maimonides • Manichaeism • marrano • martyr • mary magdalene • Mazel Tov • mendicant • messianism • Midrash • Midrash Rabba • modern Rome • Monstrance • Neofiti • Northern Italy • Old Catholic Church • Pamphlet • Papal appointment • Papal States • Pardes (Jewish exegesis) • Passion play • Persecution • Perugia • Peter Canisius • Philo-Semitism • piety • Ponte Sisto • Pope • Pope Clement VIII • Pope Gregory I • Pope Gregory XIII • Pope Julius III • Pope Leo XII • Pope Paul III • Pope Pius V • Pope Sixtus V • Preacher • Prophets of Christianity • Proselytism • Protestantism • Protestant Reformation • Puritans • Quran • Rabbi • Rabbinic Judaism • rabbinic literature • Rashi • rebuke • Reformation in Italy • Reggio Emilia • Religious War • roman college • Roman Ghetto • Roman government • Roman Inquisition • Roman Martyrology • Roman Rite • Roman Ritual • Sabbatai Zevi • Sacrament • Sacred Congregation of Rites • Santa Maria in Cosmedin • Santa Maria in Vallicella • sect • Sermon • Sicut Judaeis • Sistine Chapel • Society of Jesus • Summa contra Gentiles • Superior General of the Society of Jesus • The Exodus • Theology • Thomas Aquinas • Travels through France and Italy • Vatican Library • Vicar of Christ • VICE • Zealots (Judea) • Zohar
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23329-2 / 0691233292
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23329-1 / 9780691233291