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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Umschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar. / Cover with slight signs of use, otherwise very good condition. - The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence is a work about Italian Jews, Christians, and the institutions and policies that organised their relationship. It sets the 157� decision ofthe Medici government to ghelloize the Jews of Tuscany in the context of early modern statecraft and in the climate ofthe Catholic (or Counter) Reformation. While readers have had access to studies of the ghettos of Rome and Venice, this is the first study of the Jews of Tuscany available in English and the first and only study oft the Florentine ghetto based on sustained archival research. The story ofthe forced gliettoization of Tuscan Jews allows the author to explore the "spatialization of power," the construction of Jewish community, and the reorganization of gender roles, leading to three broad arguments of great significance to readers interested in Italian history, Jewish history, urban history, and the history of women. / CONTENT: Preface -- A Chronology of Sehet Events Related to the Ghettoization -- Notes on Translation, Dates and Currency -- Introduction: Early Modern Boundaries and the Place of the Jews -- Part I: The Segregation of Jews and the Spatialization of Power -- Residential Segregation: Religious and Political Contexts State-Building and the Status of the Jews -- Before the Ghetto: The Settlement and Connections of Jews in Tuscany -- Part II: The Construction of the Ghetto Staging the Expulsion: The Proceedings Against the Jews Locating, Financing and Constructing the Ghetto Populating the Ghetto -- Part III: A New Tuscan Commune and Religious Community -- A New Tuscan Commune: Centralization and Semi-Autonomy in the Medici StateMeasuring Lengths and Distances in the Ghetto and City: Economic Parameters -- From Virilocal to Local: Marriage in the Florentine Ghetto -- The Developing Early Modern Jewish Community and the Continuing Redefinition of Jewishness -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Notes -- Biblio�aphy IndexMaps -- The world of Italian Jews in the late sixteenth Century -- The Jewish population in the State of Florence, Grand-Duchy of Tuscany, 1570 -- Fijjures -- The Edict of Expulsion of the Jews of Tuscany, September 26,1570 -- The Ghetto of Florence in 1584 -- Marginal notations in the records of the Nove Conservatori: approval of a decision made in Cortona -- Marginal notations in the records of the Nove Conservatori: approval of a decision made in the ghetto -- Number of trips out of the ghetto taken by Jews, by age at time of trip, 1573-86 -- Number of men who took trips out of the ghetto, by age at time of trip, 1573-86 -- The new elite in the ghetto: correlation of governorship, membership in guilds and possession of a surname -- Example of a travel permit given to Jews of the Florentine -- ghetto -- The 1575 testament of Ginevra BlanisAcquisition of Property for the Ghetto -- Financing of the Purchase of the Ghetto Property -- Ghetto Shops and Apartments Rented at Auction in April 1575 -- Hypothetical Ten-Year Projected Budget for the Ghetto, 1570s -- The Population of the Jews in Florence and the Population of Florence, 1552-1672 -- Taxes Paid by the Jews of the Ghetto to the State (Through the Nove Conservatori), 1573-96 -- Population Multiplier: Men, Women and Children per Jewish Male in Five Tuscan Towns, 1570 -- Jewish Governors in the Ghetto, 1572-86 1572 Ordinances of the Florentine Ghetto The Matriculation of Jews into the Florentine Guilds, 1571-1610 -- ISBN 9780804750783