Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome

In Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome Irene Fosi provides a relevant account of the Roman Catholic strategies to convert heretical foreigners in the Eternal City and elsewhere, oscillating between repression and tolerance.

About the author

Irene Fosi is professor of Modern History at the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara in Italy. She is author of many original studies on Renaissance and Baroque Rome: All'ombra dei Barberini. Fedeltà e servizio nella Roma barocca (Rome 1997); Papal Justice. Subjects and Courts in the Papal States, 1500-1750 (Washington D.C., 2011); Conversion and Autobiography: Telling Tales before the Roman Inquisition, in "Journal of Early Modern History", 17, 2013, pp. 437- 456; 'The Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth Century', in Space of Conversion in Global Perspective, ed. by G. Marcocci, W. de Boer, A. Maldavsky, I. Pavan, pp. 154-174 (Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Irene Fosi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2020
• EAN: 9789004422650
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42265-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-170
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity