Marina Caffiero: 1 book
Forced Baptisms
Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book makes use of newly available 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. Marina Caffiero, one of the first historians permitted access to important archives, sets...
