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