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The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community

The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community

Siegmund, Stefanie B.

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

General World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0804750785
ISBN13: 9780804750783
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 5 2005
Pages: 656
Weight: 2.13
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence offers the premier academic history of the Jews of Florenceduring the early modern period, examining the institutions and policies that organized the relationships among Jews and Christians in the time of Cosimo I. It sets the 1570 decision of the Medici government to ghettoize the Jews of Tuscany in the context of early modern statecraft and in the climate of the Catholic (or Counter-) Reformation. While readers have had access to studies of the ghettos of Rome and Venice, this prize-winning monograph is the first study of the Jews of Tuscany available in English, and the first and only study of the Florentine ghetto based on sustained archival research. The story of the forced ghettoization of Tuscan Jews allows the author to explore the spatialization of power, the construction of Jewish community, and the reorganization of gender roles, leading to three broad arguments of great significance to readers interested in Italian history, Jewish history, urban history, and the history of women.

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