The Case of the Mysterious Coil of Rope: Street Life and Jewish Persona in Rome in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century
On a spring night in 1551, seven tipsy Roman Jews espy a solitary Neapolitan with a length of cable on his shoulder. On whim, they feign to be the watch and pretend to arrest him. An exercize in informal "micro-history," this essay tries to decode the sense within the foolery and to argue...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1988
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1988, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-221 |
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| Summary: | On a spring night in 1551, seven tipsy Roman Jews espy a solitary Neapolitan with a length of cable on his shoulder. On whim, they feign to be the watch and pretend to arrest him. An exercize in informal "micro-history," this essay tries to decode the sense within the foolery and to argue that what the Jews did both fits the season and expresses the ambiguities of their place as intimate outsiders in a half-hostile town. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2540407 |