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Marina Caffiero, The Religious Problem
The link between politics and religion during the revolutionary phase has played a central role in Italy but has somehow escaped much scrutiny. The article aims at analyzing this relationship following two research options : first, by examining Catholic reactionary reorganisation in the face of revolutionary rupture ; second, by reviewing the construction of a new civic religion and political theology which offers a key to better understanding the discourse and practice of republican political culture. It is here that the sacred nature and legitimacy of secular power acquire a dimension in which the echo of religious tradition still resounds. In the construction of this new civic religion the political usage of ancient Rome is also at play.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Contexts and Transcultural Networks -- PART ONE The Geopolitics of Italian Jewry between the 15th and 16th Centuries. The Structures -- 1 Demography and Geographic Distribution -- How Many Jews Were There in Italy? -- Where Were They? The Great Northward Migration -- Legal Status and Relations with the Christian Authorities: the Issue of Moneylending -- Jews in Court -- 2 Settlements and Networks. The Topography and Characteristics of Italy's Judaisms -- In the Papal States: The Marches -- The Case of Ancona: A "Trading Nation", or the Privileges of the Levantines -- Multiple Identities. The Marranos -- Bologna under the Popes and Ferrara under the House of Este -- The Case of Ferrara, a Tolerant City and Its Marrano Community -- The Umbria Region of the Papal States -- The Other Italian States. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany -- The Exceptional Case of Livorno, the City without a Ghetto -- Northern Italy. Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria -- Venice, the Cosmopolitan City -- Printing Jewish Books: a Competitive Christian Business -- 3 Women in the History of Italian Jews -- Marriage, Family, and the Role of Women -- The Extraordinary Story of a Marrano Woman. Beatriz Mendes de Luna/Gracia Nasi and the Other Women of Her Family -- 4 The First Trauma. The New Arrivals in Italy after 1492 -- The Expulsion from Spain -- The Arrivals in Italy -- Clashes, Contention, Hostility -- Conflicts, Agreements, Coexistence. The Emblematic Case of Rome -- Marranos in Rome. Pedro Furtado and Jacome de Fonseca -- Towards Confinement -- PART TWO The Invention of the Ghettos -- 5 The Second Trauma. The Birth of the Ghettos: Geography and Chronology -- Enclosures, Seraglios, and Cloisters for the Jews.