Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome

Makes use of archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church's policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity. This title documents the regularity with which Jews were abducted from the Roman ghetto and pressured to accept baptism.

• | By (Author): Marina Caffiero (Author)
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0520254511
• | ISBN-13: 9780520254510