Author: Cecil RothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Author: Cecil RothBy Fire Possessed
Author: Sandra ToroPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935604068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
By Fire Possessed is historical fiction about the life of Doa Gracia Nasi, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women of the Renaissance. She used her power to rescue many thousands of Sephardic Jews from the genocidal persecution of the Inquisition. She was born to a family of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. They escaped to Portugal where they were again persecuted a few years later. Her husband built one of the largest commercial empires of the day, and after his death she assumed control of the business. Doa Gracia was arrested and jailed by the Inquisition in Venice, but she was eventually released and then moved to the Ottoman Empire, which allowed freedom of religious practice. She established communities for Jews escaping Europe in Ottoman territories. She was the single most important person rescuing Jews from the Inquisition.
The Long Arm of Papal Authority
Author: Gerhard JaritzPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155053790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at Central European University in Budapest. They deal comparatively with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and Eastern Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages, both areas at the margins of Western Christendom. Special emphasis is placed on analysis of registers in the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Doña Gracia Nasi
Author: Cecil RothPublisher:
ISBN: 9782867464386
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 223
Book Description
Siècle des découvertes, des horizons qui s'ouvrent, des épices importées d'Orient, des femmes célèbres, le XVIe siècle est aussi celui de l'intolérance et de l'Inquisition. Doña Gracia, grande dame de la Renaissance, issue d'une famille de marranes, dirige la " banque " Mendes, rivale de celle des Médicis, et doit quitter le Portugal. A Anvers elle fréquente la cour de Charles Quint. Jusqu'au jour où le danger devient trop pressant. Alors commence son périple : Lyon, Venise, Ferrare, et pour finir Istanbul, où Soliman le Magnifique l'accueille et la protège. De la Corne d'or, elle décrète l'embargo sur Ancône, port des Etats pontificaux. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire de la Renaissance, les Juifs se dressent face à la persécution, sous la bannière d'une femme...
Doña Gracia of the House of Nasi
Author: Cecil RothPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827604114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dona Gracia, a Marrano or 'converso' (secret Jew), flees the Inquisition in Portugal. She wanders Europe, rises to financial power in Antwerp, finds sanctuary, finally, in Turkey, where she spends her last years as the uncrowned Queen of Jewry in the Ottoman Empire.
Author: Andrée Aelion BrooksThe Ghost of Hannah Mendes
Author: Naomi RagenPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312281250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The ghost of a real-life historical figure helps elderly Catherine da Costa convince her granddaughters to travel across Europe with her and helps them find a link between past and present by leaving mysterious journal entries along their travel route.
Doña Gracia's Secret
Author: Marilyn FroggattPublisher:
ISBN: 9789657023082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"A remarkable story of an extraordinary woman. Marilyn Froggatt's creative nonfiction account of Dona Gracia is well-researched and inspiring. It invites youth to raise some difficult questions"--
Author: Ellis Rivkin