Converting a nation: a modern Inquisition and the unification of Italy
Lang, Ariella
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. ÍNDICE: - 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 Brescianib s Lb Ebreo di Verona - Part III: The Catholic Press - Private Letters, Public Stories: From the De Joux Conversion(s) to the Mortara Affair
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60672-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 12/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés