Cassen, Flora. Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy : politics, religion, and the power of symbols

Folger bibliographic ID: 357963
Folger call number: DS135.I8 C3974 2017
Folger holdings ID: 506194

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index

Contents

Introduction -- Origins and symbolic meaning of the Jewish badge -- Dukes, friars, and Jews in fifteenth-century Milan -- Strangers at home : the Jewish badge in Spanish Milan, 1512-1597 -- From black to yellow : loss of solidarity among the Jews of Piedmont -- No Jews in Genoa -- Conclusion

Extended title: Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy : politics, religion, and the power of symbols / Flora Cassen

Jews Clothing and dress Milan (Italy) Genoa (Italy) Piedmont (Italy) Ethnic relations Italy Abgrenzung Juden Judenabzeichen Judenstern Genua Italien Mailand Piemont

author: Cassen, Flora