Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome

Matthew Coneys Wainwright is Research Associate in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. His work deals with late medieval and early modern pilgrimage culture and the history of the book between manuscript and print.Emily Michelson is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews. She publishes on preaching and interreligious tension, including The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy (Harvard, 2013), and a forthcoming monograph on forced sermons to Jews in Rome.

• AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionEmily Michelson and Matthew Coneys Wainwright1 Papal Ceremonies for the Embassies of Non-Catholic RulersMayu Fujikawa2 Pope as ArbiterThe Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite ChristiansRobert John Clines3 Non-Catholic Pilgrims and the Hospital of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1575–1650)Matthew Coneys Wainwright4 Between Conversion and ReconquestThe Venerable English College between the Late 16th and 17th CenturiesIrene Fosi5 Ethiopian Christians in Rome, c.1400–c.1700Sam Kennerley6 A Faith between Two WorldsExpressing Ethiopian Devotion and Crossing Cultural Boundaries at Santo Stefano dei Mori in Early Modern RomeOlivia Adankpo-Labadie7 Being a New Christian in Early Modern RomeJames Nelson Novoa8 Wandering LivesEastern Christian Pilgrims, Alms-Collectors and “Refugees” in Early Modern RomeCesare Santus9 Saving Souls, Forgiving BodiesA New Source and a Working Hypothesis on Slavery, Conversion and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome (16th–19th Centuries)Serena Di Nepi10 Muslim Slaves in Early Modern RomeThe Development and Visibility of a Labouring ClassJustine A. Walden11 Jews in 16th-Century Italy and the Vicissitudes of the Hebrew BookPiet van Boxel12 Resist, Refute, RedirectRoman Jews Attend Conversionary SermonsEmily MichelsonBibliographyIndex of Names

“Each of the essays of this volume is meticulously researched and provides new insights on the presence of religious minorities in papal Rome. As a whole, they build on previous scholarship, push research in new directions, and offer a nuanced picture of how different religious minorities encountered Rome and Catholicism. Furthermore, each essay concludes with a brief suggestion for new avenues of research. […] The editors and the contributors have given us an excellent starting place to uncover the voices of religious minorities living in the very heart of the Catholic world.” John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 2021), pp. 678–681.