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The Jews in Rome

This volume recreates, through a register and apt citation, the second thousand acts of an archive known informally as the "Notai ebrei", a collection of up to 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. These documents throw light on Jewish social and cultural life of the period, including litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogical disputes, rental contracts, apprenticeships, and ownership of property by women.This work recreates the first 1000 acts of an archive known informally as the "Notai ebrei", a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the 20 years prior to the establishment of the Roman ghetto by Paul IV in 1555.

Taxation, community, and state : the Jews and the fiscal foundations of the early modern Papal State

Catholic thought and papal Jewry policy, 1555-1593