Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy write by Flora Cassen. This book was released on 2017-08-03. Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is a little known fact that as early as the thirteenth century, Europe's political and religious powers tried to physically mark and distinguish the Jews from the rest of society. During the Renaissance, Italian Jews first had to wear a yellow round badge on their chest, and then later, a yellow beret. The discriminatory marks were a widespread phenomenon with serious consequences for Jewish communities and their relations with Christians. 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. Moving beyond Italy, it also examines the place of Jews and Jewry law in the increasingly interconnected world of Early Modern European politics.
Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics
Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics write by Flora Cassen. This book was released on 2017. Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance write by Dana E. Katz. This book was released on 2008-06-04. The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
A Convert’s Tale
A Convert’s Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Convert’s Tale write by Tamar Herzig. This book was released on 2019-12-03. A Convert’s Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain write by Mark D. Meyerson. This book was released on 2021-02-09. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the horrible violence of 1391. Drawing on a wide array of archival documentation, including Spanish Inquisition records, he argues that Morvedre saw a Jewish "renaissance." Meyerson shows how the favorable policies of kings and of town government yielded the Jewish community's demographic expansion and prosperity. Of crucial importance were new measures that ceased the oppressive taxation of the Jews and minimized their role as moneylenders. The results included a reversal of the credit relationship between Jews and Christians, a marked amelioration of Christian attitudes toward Jews, and greater economic diversification on the part of Jews. Representing a major contribution to debates over the Inquisition's origins and the expulsion of the Jews, the book also offers the first extended analysis of Jewish-converso relations at the local level, showing that Morvedre's Jews expressed their piety by assisting Valencia's conversos. Comparing Valencia with other regions of Spain and with the city-states of Renaissance Italy, it makes clear why this kingdom and the town of Morvedre were so ripe for a Jewish revival in the fifteenth century.
