Table of Contents for
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
Acknowledgments
Preface
A Chronology of Select Events Related to the Ghettoization
Notes on Translation, Dates and Currency
Introduction: Early Modern Boundaries and the Place of the Jews
Part I: The Segregation of Jews and the Spatialization of Power
1. Residential Segregation: Religious and Political Contexts
2. State-Building and the Status of the Jews
3. Before the Ghetto: The Settlement and Connections of Jews in Tuscany
Part II: The Construction of the Ghetto
4. Staging the Expulsion: The Proceedings Against the Jews
5. Locating, Financing and Constructing the Ghetto
6. Populating the Ghetto
Part III: A New Tuscan Commune and Religious Community
7. A New Tuscan Commune: Centralization and Semi-Autonomy in the Medici State
8. Measuring Lengths and Distances in the Ghetto and City: Economic Parameters
9. From Virilocal to Local: Marriage in the Florentine Ghetto
10. The Developing Early Modern Jewish Community and the Continuing Redefinition of Jewishness
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index