Legitimizing Rhetorics: Jewish “Heresy” in Early Modern Italy

Granted the weakness of Jewish institutions for social control, arguments for freedom of thought and criticism of authority could flourish relatively unimpeded within the community. Communities did use decrees of excommunication to expel individuals for various types of actions—especially those rela...

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Main Author: Bernard Dov Cooperman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2017-10-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1764