Converting a Nation

A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9780230606722
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2008 9780230606722
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Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

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ISBN13:9780230606722
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction PART I: TRIALS Reading Between the Lines: Inquisition Texts and Catholic Conquests Re-writing the Jew in Restoration Italy: The Stories of Salvatore Tivoli and Samuelle Cavalieri PART II: NOVELS Proselytization as Nationalist Project: Alessandro Manzoni the Convert(er) Conversion and National Identity: A Reading of Bresciani's L'Ebreo di Verona PART III: THE CATHOLIC PRESS Private Letters, Public Stories: From the De Joux Conversion(s) to the Mortara Affair

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