TY - BOOK ID - 101170268 TI - Catholic spectacle and Rome's Jews : early modern conversion and resistance PY - 2022 SN - 9780691211336 0691211337 9780691233291 PB - Princeton : ©2022 Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Judaism KW - Interfaith relations. KW - Judaism. KW - Religion. KW - Conversion to Christianity KW - History. KW - Relations KW - Catholic Church. KW - Catholic Church KW - Liturgy KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Rome (Empire) KW - Religion KW - 27 <45 ROMA> KW - 296*82 KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - 296*82 Dialoog joden - christenen KW - Dialoog joden - christenen KW - 27 <45 ROMA> Histoire de l'Eglise--Italië--ROMA KW - 27 <45 ROMA> Kerkgeschiedenis--Italië--ROMA KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--Italië--ROMA KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Italië--ROMA KW - History KW - Church of Rome KW - Roman Catholic Church KW - Katholische Kirche KW - Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva KW - Römisch-Katholische Kirche KW - Römische Kirche KW - Ecclesia Catholica KW - Eglise catholique KW - Eglise catholique-romaine KW - Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - Chiesa cattolica KW - Iglesia Católica KW - Kościół Katolicki KW - Katolicki Kościół KW - Kościół Rzymskokatolicki KW - Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai KW - Katholikē Ekklēsia KW - Gereja Katolik KW - Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit KW - Kanisa Katoliki KW - כנסיה הקתולית KW - כנסייה הקתולית KW - 가톨릭교 KW - 천주교 KW - Rome (Italy : Comune) KW - Rome (Italy : Governatorato) KW - Rūmah (Italy) KW - Roma (Italy) KW - Rom (Italy) KW - Rím (Italy) KW - Rzym (Italy) KW - Comune di Roma (Italy) KW - Rome KW - Juifs KW - Judaïsme KW - Église catholique KW - Conversion au christianisme KW - Église catholique. KW - Liturgie KW - Histoire. KW - Rome (Italie) KW - Judaïsme KW - Église catholique KW - Église catholique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101170268 AB - Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. In Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews, Emily Michelson demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism.Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscripts, Michelson reconstructs the dynamics of weekly forced preaching in Rome. As the Catholic Church began to embark on worldwide missions, sermons to Jews offered a unique opportunity to define and defend its new triumphalist, global outlook. They became a point of prestige in Rome. The city’s most important organizations invested in maintaining these spectacles, and foreign tourists eagerly attended them. The title of “Preacher to the Jews” could make a man’s career. The presence of Christian spectators, Roman and foreign, was integral to these sermons, and preachers played to the gallery. Conversionary sermons also provided an intellectual veneer to mask ongoing anti-Jewish aggressions. In response, Jews mounted a campaign of resistance, using any means available. Examining the history and content of sermons to Jews over two and a half centuries, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews argues that conversionary preaching to Jews played a fundamental role in forming early modern Catholic identity ER -