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Abstract

This paper aims to deal with an unknown side of the history of marriage in Ancien Régime: the grant of marriage dispensations offered by the Roman Inquisition to the women belonging to minorities -Jewish or muslim. This people after their conversion to Christian religion asked for a permission to re-marry with a Christian. They, in this way, had to obtain a kind of divorce from the first husband. The facility to obtain the grant shows that these marriages worked as instruments of integration an assimilation of the women in the majority group. But on the other side the assimilation aimed to delete the original identity with the conversion. It did not involve a full tolerance of the "other", but a sort of "repressive tolerance": the religious intolerance appeared to be less evident but not less strong.

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Title
I sottili confini tra tolleranza e intolleranza. Dispense matrimoniali e matrimoni "misti" come strumenti di controllo e di integrazione delle minoranze a Roma in età moderna
Author
Caffiero, Marina
Pages
193-211
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
18267513
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1798983949
Copyright
Copyright Firenze University Press 2015