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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Daniela Rando. Dai margini la memoria: Johannes Hinderbach (1418–1486). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento; Monografie, number 37.) Bologna: Mulino. 2003. Pp. 575. €33.00.

Daniela Rando offers here an account of the life, work, and thought of Johannes Hinderbach—jurist, counselor, diplomat, and cleric. Hinderbach was educated in arts and law at the universities of Vienna and Padua. Before becoming bishop of Trent in 1465, he was in service to the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and German King Frederick III. Hinderbach is best known for his participation in the affair of Simon of Trent, a boy believed to have been ritually murdered by members of Trent's Jewish community in 1475. The reprisals—after torture, forced confessions, and obligatory conversions—were brutal, as members of the Jewish community were beheaded, burned, or dispossessed. Rando does not focus on this episode, offering instead a two-part study of Hinderbach in context, a practice that allows her, when she does arrive at Hinderbach's perceptions of Jews, to explain his participation in the Simon episode in a way that is intuitively satisfying, blending as it does structure and individual agency. Rando's study is enriched by her use of a distinctive source base, Hinderbach's library of over a hundred manuscripts and forty incunabula. He annotated them richly, and Rando has used these marginalia to reconstruct the fears, joys, and machinations of a fifteenth-century individual. In so doing, she also makes a contribution to the history of pre-Cartesian subjectivity.

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