A Companion To Religious Minorities In Early Modern Rome

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Edited by Coneys Wainwright, Matthew; Edited by Michelson Emily

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An examination of groups and individuals in Rome who were not Roman Catholic, or not born so. It demonstrates how other religions had a lasting impact on early modern Catholic institutions in Rome.

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A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome investigates the lives and stories of the many groups and individuals in Rome, between 1500 and approximately 1750, who were not Roman (Latin) Catholic. It shows how early modern Catholic people and institutions in Rome were directly influenced by their interactions with other religious traditions. This collection reveals the significant impact of Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians; the influence of the many transient groups and individual travelers who passed through the city; the unique contributions of converts to Catholicism, who drew on the religion of their birth; and the importance of intermediaries, fluent in more than one culture and religion.

Contributors include: Olivia Adankpo-Labadie, Robert John Clines, Matthew Coneys Wainwright, Serena Di Nepi, Irene Fosi, Mayu Fujikawa, Sam Kennerley, Emily Michelson, James Nelson Novoa, Cesare Santus, Piet van Boxel, and Justine A. Walden.

Table of contents:
AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Emily Michelson and Matthew Coneys Wainwright1 Papal Ceremonies for the Embassies of Non-Catholic Rulers  Mayu Fujikawa2 Pope as Arbiter The Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite Christians  Robert John Clines3 Non-Catholic Pilgrims and the Hospital of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1575–1650)  Matthew Coneys Wainwright4 Between Conversion and Reconquest The Venerable English College between the Late 16th and 17th Centuries  Irene Fosi5 Ethiopian Christians in Rome, c.1400–c.1700  Sam Kennerley6 A Faith between Two Worlds Expressing Ethiopian Devotion and Crossing Cultural Boundaries at Santo Stefano dei Mori in Early Modern Rome  Olivia Adankpo-Labadie7 Being a New Christian in Early Modern Rome  James Nelson Novoa8 Wandering Lives Eastern Christian Pilgrims, Alms-Collectors and “Refugees” in Early Modern Rome  Cesare Santus9 Saving Souls, Forgiving Bodies A New Source and a Working Hypothesis on Slavery, Conversion and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome (16th–19th Centuries)  Serena Di Nepi10 Muslim Slaves in Early Modern Rome The Development and Visibility of a Labouring Class  Justine A. Walden11 Jews in 16th-Century Italy and the Vicissitudes of the Hebrew Book  Piet van Boxel12 Resist, Refute, Redirect Roman Jews Attend Conversionary Sermons  Emily MichelsonBibliographyIndex of Names

Review quote:
“Each of the essays of this volume is meticulously researched and provides new insights on the presence of religious minorities in papal Rome. As a whole, they build on previous scholarship, push research in new directions, and offer a nuanced picture of how different religious minorities encountered Rome and Catholicism. Furthermore, each essay concludes with a brief suggestion for new avenues of research. […] The editors and the contributors have given us an excellent starting place to uncover the voices of religious minorities living in the very heart of the Catholic world.”
John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 2021), pp. 678–681.

Biographical note:
Matthew Coneys Wainwright is Research Associate in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. His work deals with late medieval and early modern pilgrimage culture and the history of the book between manuscript and print.

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