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Anna and Tranquillo
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the next thirteen days to force her conversion to Catholicism. Anna’s powerful chronicle of her ordeal at the hands of authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, originally circulated by her brother Tranquillo in 1793, receives its first English-language translation along with an insightful interpretation by Kenneth Stow of the incident’s legal and historical significance. Stow’s analysis of Anna’s dramatic story of prejudice, injustice, resistance, and survival during her two-week imprisonment in the Roman House of Converts—and her brother’s later efforts to protest state-sanctioned, religion-based abuses—provides a detailed view of the separate forces on either side of the struggle between religious and civil law in the years just prior to the massive political and social upheavals in America and Europe.
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500–1815
This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.
Misión, derechos, deberes y responsabilidades del abogado
Es esta una obra cuya lectura anima el espÃritu a la vez que ilumina el conocimiento. Se investiga, en forma no tediosa sino amena, sobre el "arte" del buen abogar. Sus obvios destinatarios son aquellos profesionales del Derecho que buscan y luchan todos los dÃas en el afán de conquistar ese ansiado valor de dar a cada uno lo suyo -sum quique tribuendi-. Si la virtud, al decir de Aristóteles en su Ética a Nicómaco, radica en un justo medio -sophrocine-, este estudio se encuentra en esa senda, pues funde lo práctico con el necesario marco teórico; lo clásico con lo moderno; a la vez que armoniza lo ético con lo jurÃdico. En la primera parte este joven autor investiga sobre la misiÃ...
Annuario pontificio
Yearbook on the Vatican administration and on the roman catholic hierarchy
The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present
One of the most extraordinary books ever written about chess and chessplayers, this authoritative study goes well beyond a lucid explanation of how todays chessmasters and tournament players are rated. Twenty years' research and practice produce a wealth of thought-provoking and hitherto unpublished material on the nature and development of high-level talent: Just what constitutes an "exceptional performance" at the chessboard? Can you really profit from chess lessons? What is the lifetime pattern of Grandmaster development? Where are the masters born? Does your child have master potential? The step-by-step rating system exposition should enable any reader to become an expert on it. For some...
