'In this fascinating study, instead of focusing on the better-known Venice, Rome, and Florence and their ghettos, Flora Cassen has chosen to concentrate on northern Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the under-studied areas of Piedmont, the Duchy of Milan, and Genoa, where Jewish communities were small. ... a stimulating and informative contribution to Jewish-Christian studies.' Christopher F. Black, Renaissance and Reformation 'Cassen's book takes us beyond a simplified interpretation of the Jewish badge as a means to make Jews recognizable. ... It certainly speaks not only to scholars of Renaissance Italy but also to anybody interested in mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion in medieval and early modern Jewish history, including graduate students.' Cornelia Aust, H-Judaic 'Cassen's study will guide students into the rich possibilities and complexities of archival research and will serve as the English point of reference for any future study of the real-life context of the Jewish badge.' Bernard Dov Cooperman, The American Historical Review '... convincingly reveals the political precarity of late medieval and early modern Jewish communities.' Bianca Lopez, Comptes Rendus '... thought-provoking ... An important addition to debates on anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, the book will appeal to scholars of religion interested in understanding how Christians attempted to place one religious minority apart from the majority during the Italian Renaissance.' Deborah Kaye, Religious Studies Review