Kenneth Stow: 2 books
Anna and Tranquillo
Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the...
Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome
Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the eye of the Pope. Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers. They spoke (Roman) Italian, ate and dressed as did other...