Feeding the eternal city : Jewish and Christian butchers in the Roman ghetto /
"Between 1555 and 1870, the Catholic Church made it nearly impossible for Rome's ghetto-bound Jews to obtain kosher meat legally. But Jewish butchers circumvented canon law with the help of their Christian counterparts. Kenneth Stow describes these slaughterhouse collaborations, which enab...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | I tatti studies in Italian renaissance history
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| Summary: | "Between 1555 and 1870, the Catholic Church made it nearly impossible for Rome's ghetto-bound Jews to obtain kosher meat legally. But Jewish butchers circumvented canon law with the help of their Christian counterparts. Kenneth Stow describes these slaughterhouse collaborations, which enabled Jews to maintain their traditions in a hostile territory"-- |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674297395 0674297393 |