Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy

By Ariella Lang

Book Overview

Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230606725
• ISBN13: 9780230606722
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"