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Forced Baptisms - Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome (Hardcover)
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Forced Baptisms - Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome (Hardcover)
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This book makes use of newly available 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. Marina Caffiero, one of the first historians
permitted access to important archives, sets individual stories of
denunciation, betrayal, pleading, and conflict into historical
context to highlight the Church's actions and the Jewish response.
Caffiero documents the regularity with which Jews were abducted
from the Roman ghetto and pressured to accept baptism. She analyzes
why some Jewish men, interested in gaining a business advantage,
were more inclined to accept conversion than the women. This book
exposes the complexity of relations between the papacy and the
Jews, revealing the Church not as a monolithic entity, but as a
network of competing institutions, and affirming the Roman Jews as
active agents of resistance.
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