Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Informations
Title Page
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Contents
Introduction
	1 A Historiography in Motion: Purposes and Scope of This Book
	2 Contents of the Book
	Acknowledgments
Part 1 The States of Italy
1 Power, Rule, and Political Agency in Italy during the Later Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance
	1 Modernity, State-Building, and Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: at the Roots of a Difficult Relationship
	2 The Context
	3 Territories and Political Spaces
	4 Languages and Practices of Power
	5 Agency and Identity in a Composite Space: a Concluding Remark
	Bibliography
2 Beyond the Court: Rethinking the State and Politics in Early Modern Europe
	1 There Once Was a Modern State
	2 The Discovery of the Court
	3 Rethinking the Politics of the Old Regime
	4 The State as a “Camp of Camps”
	5 In Conclusion: Statehood and Social Hybridization
	Bibliography
3 The Right to Exclude: the State and the Rise of Jewish Self-Government in Early Modern Italy
	1 The Ghetto
	2 Hazakah and the Restraint of Trade
	3 The Age of Charters
	Primary Sources
	Bibliography
Part 2 Governing the State, Controlling the Jews
4 Christian Financial Government and Jewish Political Culture in Italy (15th-17th c.): a Dialectic
	Bibliography
5 Cows, Cogs, or Actors? The Jews in the Political Processes of the Duchy of Milan (15th century)
	1 The Passive Contribution of the Jews
	2 The Jews in the Machinery of the State
	3 Jews as Actors: Choices and Opposition
	Bibliography
6 Prelude to the Ghetto: Did Venice Favor the “Italian Way”?
	Bibliography
7 Iudeca: Jewish Communities and Jewish Space in Fifteenth Century Southern Italy
	1 The State and the Jews
	2 The City and the Iudeca
	3 Some Notes on the Relationship between Jewish Rights and the Shrinking of Jewish Space in the 15th century
	4 Conclusions
	Bibliography
8 Jews, State and Politics
	1 Trial in the Ghettos
	2 Dangerous Relations
	3 Power Games
	4 Conclusions
	Primary Sources
	Bibliography
Part 3 A Minority in a Globalizing World
9 The Notion of Universitas Judaeorum as a Centralizing Instrument in the Late Medieval Papal States
	1 Geographical Differences
	2 Rome: between Monarchic Southern and Communal Central Italy
	3 Importing Juridical Terminology from the Monarchic South
	4 Conclusions
	Bibliography
10 The Practicing Jew in Early Modern Inquisitorial Strategy
	Acknowledgement
	Primary Sources
	Bibliography
11 The Global and the Local: Jews in Florence, Sephardic Diaspora, and the Ottomans (16th Century)
	1 Introduction
	2 The 1540s and 1550s
	3 Emigration
	4 Cosimo’s Reasons
	5 Port Development
	6 1550–1565: Jews and Eastern Connections
	7 Local Jews
	8 Ghettoization
	9 Ferdinando
	10 Port Defenses and the Livornina
	11 Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Archival Sources
		Printed Sources
Part 4 The Challenge of “Modernity”
12 The Jews and the States in Eighteenth Century Europe: New Lines of Research
	1 A Three-Way Relationship: States, Church, Jews
	2 Italy, Jewish History and National History
	3 The Modern State and the Economic Paradigm of Jewish Usefulness
	4 The French Way and the English Way to Emancipation
	5 The Prussian Way and the Habsburg Way
	6 The Clash between State and Church and the Debate over Jews in Italy
	7 State, Bodies, Nations, and Communities
	8 The Crisis of the System of Bodies and the Appearance of the Individual
	9 Towards the Revolution: Different Approaches to Emancipation
	10 Epilogue
	Bibliography
13 Building the Italian Nation-State: Jewish Bankers, Politicians, and the Use of the Past in the Ag
	1 Jewish Lenders and Non-Jewish Borrowers: a Relational Perspective
	2 From Cologne to Sicily
	3 Who Is the Best Banker?
	4 Conclusions
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Bibliography
Index of Names
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