Tra alumbrados e "Spirituali": Studi su Juan de Valdes e il valdesianesimo nella Crisi Religiosa del '500 Italiano. Massimo Firpo , Antonio RotondòCultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World. Mary Elizabeth Perry , Anne J. CruzForme e Destinazione del Messagio Religioso: Aspetti Della Propaganda Religiosa nel Cinquecento. Antonio Rotondò , Cecilia Asso , Mario Biagioni , Matteo Duni , Lucia FeliciThe Prosecution of Heresy: Collected Studies on the Inquisition in Early Modern Italy. John Tedeschi

1994 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Adriano Prosperi
2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-284
Author(s):  
David Malkiel

AbstractMuch has been written about the establishment of ghettos in Italy and some attention has been paid to social structures and cultural forms that emerged during the ghetto period, but there is a great deal more to be learned about how living in a ghetto affected the Jewish family, society and culture. The present study sheds light on the ghetto’s physical presence, specifically on the impact on religious life of the architecture and urban development of this uniquely Jewish space.Rabbinic responsa published in the Pahad Yitzhak, an encyclopedia of Jewish law published by Isaac Lampronti of Ferrara in the mid-eighteenth century, represent an eruption of anxiety, expressed in a flurry of intense literary activity, about the ostensible impossibility of escaping “tent pollution,” contracted by anyone present under the same roof as someone deceased. The pollution seemed inescapable because the architecture and urban layout seemed to allow for it to pass from building to building across the entire ghetto. The tent pollution material is thus an instance of the interplay of architecture, urban development and Jewish law.Tent pollution particularly exercised the Jews of early modern Italy. Jews living both before and after the age of the Italian ghetto evinced virtually no interest in the tent pollution problems posed by urban development. There is a smattering of writing on the subject from northern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, which only underscores that this was a particularly Italian problem.The present study spotlights this moment in early modern Jewish life, which stands out for the agitation it aroused among Italy’s Jews, and explores its implications for the social and cultural concerns of Jews in the early modern era. Lampronti’s encyclopedia affords us entrée, serving as a kind of seismograph to draw attention to areas which were the focus of heightened concern and activity in his historical setting.


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
David Buisseret

2016 ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Lisa-Marie Gabriel

The following seminar-paper deals with the early modern colonialism by the example of the Spanish Empire. In this context the paper works on the question how and why the formerly small kingdom Castile-Aragón was successful in conquering the so called ‘new world’ and as a result in establishing one of the largest empires from global extent in world history from the 15th to the 16th century. Therefor the paper examines the conditions on the Iberian Peninsula at that time as well as the backgrounds of the oversea-conquest, including the impact on the indigenous population, to finally clarify the question of how the spanish colonialism was designed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Roisin Cossar ◽  
Cecilia Hewlett

In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural inhabitants and those with authority over them responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by seasonal change. Primary sources include episcopal visitations, the diary of a rural priest, statutes from rural communities, testimony before episcopal courts, chronicles, and the records of magistracies in mountain communities. Studying the relationship between seasonality, sociability, and power relations in rural communities challenges one-dimensional narratives of premodern “peasant” life and instead demonstrates the complex and fluid nature of rural society.


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