Converting a Nation

A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

  • Authors
  • Ariella Lang
Book

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History book series (SECH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 1-8

  3. Trials

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 9-9
      PDF
    2. Reading Between the Lines
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 11-30
    3. Rewriting the Jew in Restoration Italy
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 31-72

  4. Novels

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
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    2. Proselytization as a Nationalist Project
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 75-103
    3. Conversion and National Identity
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 105-135

  5. The Catholic Press

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 137-137
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    2. Private Letters, Public Stories
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 139-176
    3. Conclusion
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 177-180
    4. Epilogue
      Ariella Lang
      Pages 181-186
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 187-237
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

Keywords

church identity Italy nation novel press project restoration writing

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615816
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-37407-6
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-61581-6
  • About this book