Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy - Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols

This book examines the discriminatory marking of Jews in Renaissance Italy and the impacts this had on the Jewish communities.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Origins and symbolic meaning of the Jewish badge; 2. Dukes, friars and Jews in fifteenth-century Milan; 3. Strangers at home: the Jewish badge in Spanish Milan (1512-1597); 4. From black to yellow: loss of solidarity among the Jews of Piedmont; 5. No Jews in Genoa; Conclusion.

About the author

Flora Cassen is Associate Professor of History and JMA and Sonja Van der Horst Scholar in Jewish History and Culture, both at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the history of Jews in early modern Italy, Spain, and the Mediterranean. She has published articles on these subjects in the Association for Jewish Studies Review and The Journal of Early Modern History.

Summary

Beginning with a sartorial study - how the Jews were marked on their clothing and what these marks meant - the book offers an in-depth analysis of anti-Jewish discrimination across three Italian city-states: Milan, Genoa, and Piedmont. It also examines the place of Jews and Jewry law in Early Modern European politics.

Product details

• Authors: Flora Cassen, Flora (University of North Carolina Cassen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107175433
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17543-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Italy, Jewish Studies, Judaism, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Social groups: religious groups and communities