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Auteur(s) : Michelson, Emily
Titre(s) : Catholic spectacle and Rome's Jews [Texte imprimé] : early modern conversion and resistance / Emily Michelson
Publication : Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii-331 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 279-323. Index
"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."
Sujet(s) : Juifs -- Conversion au christianisme -- Rome (Italie) -- 1500-1800
Juifs -- Persécutions -- Rome (Italie) -- 1500-1800
Église catholique -- Relations -- Judaïsme -- Rome (Italie) -- 1500-1800
Sermons -- Rome (Italie) -- 1500-1800
Prédication -- Christianisme -- Rome (Italie) -- 1500-1800
Indice(s) Dewey :
261.260 94563209 (23e éd.) = Christianisme et judaïsme - Italie - Rome - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0691211337. - ISBN 9780691211336 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47100214v
Notice n° :
FRBNF47100214
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction, with pig ; The world of conversion in early modern Rome ; How sermons
to Jews worked ; The careers of preachers ; Sermons to Jews and the public ; Preaching
traditions and change ; Saints, Turks, and heretics : Gregorio Boncompagni Corcos
and early modern Catholicism ; Jewish responses ; Epilogue.
