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Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

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Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
Year
Pages 247
Version hardback
Language English
ISBN 9780230606722
Categories History of religion
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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.

Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

Table of contents

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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