Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

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Peter A. Mazur

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Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in a territory where papal authority and Catholic orthodoxy were arguably at their strongest: the Italian peninsula. Through an analysis of both the unique strategies employed by clerics to attract and educate converts, and the biographies of the men and women—soldiers, aristocrats, and charlatans—who negotiated new positions for themselves in Rome and the other cities of the peninsula, a new image of Italy during the Counter-reformation emerges: a place where repression and toleration alternated in unexpected ways, leaving room for negotiation and exchange with members of rival faiths.

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Peter A. Mazur is a historian of Italy and Mediterranean in the early modern period who has held academic positions at Northwestern University and at the University of York (UK) and lectured widely at universities in the United States, England, and Italy. He is the author of The New Christians of Spanish Naples: A Fragile Élite, 1527-1661　(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and numerous articles on the history of religious minorities and religious intolerance in the Italian Counter-reformation. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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January 25th, 2016

Author

Peter A. Mazur

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

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4 Halftones, black and white

Pages

192

Series

Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

Dimensions

156x234x23

ISBN-13

9781848936188

Product ID

24347693

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