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Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover)
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Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a
new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the
challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and
continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the
Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the
extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious
identity in a territory where papal authority and Catholic
orthodoxy were arguably at their strongest: the Italian peninsula.
Through an analysis of both the unique strategies employed by
clerics to attract and educate converts, and the biographies of the
men and women-soldiers, aristocrats, and charlatans-who negotiated
new positions for themselves in Rome and the other cities of the
peninsula, a new image of Italy during the Counter-reformation
emerges: a place where repression and toleration alternated in
unexpected ways, leaving room for negotiation and exchange with
members of rival faiths.
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