Converting a Nation [electronic resource] : A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy /
Lang, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Trials; 1 Reading between the Lines: Inquisition Texts and Catholic Conquests; 2 Rewriting the Jew in Restoration Italy: The Stories of Salvatore Tivoli and Samuelle Cavalieri; Part II: Novels; 3 Proselytization as a Nationalist Project: Alessandro Manzoni the Convert(er); 4 Conversion and National Identity: A Reading of Bresciani's L'Ebreo di Verona; Part III: The Catholic Press; 5 Private Letters, Public Stories: From the De Joux Conversion(s) to the Mortara Affair; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.
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.
Catholic Church
Religion—History.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Italy—History.
Catholic Church.
Judaism.
History of Religion.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Italy.
Catholicism.
Judaism.