- Konrad Adenauer Chair in Comparative European History
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tamar Herzig
Tel Aviv University, History, Faculty Member
- Early Modern Europe, Religious History, Gender History, Inquisition Studies, Renaissance Italy, Religious Dissent, and 22 moreProsecution of Heresy, Jewish-Christian relations, Monasticism, History of Christian Mysticism, Medieval Christianity, Renaissance Ferrara, Renaissance Mantua, Witch Hunt Studies, Demonology, Medieval History, Social History, Heresy and Inquisition, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Dominican History, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Religious Conversion, Witchcraft, Inter-Religious Polemics, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Medieval heresy, and Modern Italian Historyedit
5-year ERC-funded project on Female Slavery in Early Modern Mediterranean Europe is recruiting up to 2 PhD students
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The Mediterranean Seminar is proud to announce the June 2022 Article of the month:"Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno," by Tamar Herzig: History, Tel Aviv University.
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Early Modern Captivity, Gender and Sexuality, and 10 moreHistory of Slavery, Mediterranean Studies, Gender, Gender And Violence, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Mediterranean and North Africa, Rape and Sexual Assault Law, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Livorno, and Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations
סַלומוֹנֶה דָה סֶסוֹ היה צורף כשרוני להפליא, שעיצב תכשיטים ואבזרי אופנה לשליטים ולשליטות בחצרות של צפון איטליה בשיאו של הרנסנס האיטלקי. אחת מיצירותיו הנודעות היייתה חרב טקסית מפוארת שהכין בשביל צ'זרה בורג'ה, בנו של האפיפיור אלכסנדר השישי.... more
סַלומוֹנֶה דָה סֶסוֹ היה צורף כשרוני להפליא, שעיצב תכשיטים ואבזרי אופנה לשליטים ולשליטות בחצרות של צפון איטליה בשיאו של הרנסנס האיטלקי. אחת מיצירותיו הנודעות היייתה חרב טקסית מפוארת שהכין בשביל צ'זרה בורג'ה, בנו של האפיפיור אלכסנדר השישי. ואולם בשנת 1491 האשימו יהודי מנטובה את סלומונה בעבירות מין והסגירו אותו לרשויות בפררה. משהורשע היה הצורף היהודי צפוי לגזר דין מוות. כדי להציל את עורו בחר סלומונה להתנצר, קיבל חנינה מן הדוכס וקיבל את השם אֵרקוֹלֶה דָה פֶדֶלי.
הודות למעמדו המקצועי הרם של הצורף נותר תיעוד רב עליו ועל פרשות הקשורות בו. על סמך מבחר עצום של מסמכים ארכיוניים עוקבת תמר הרציג בספר סיפורו של מומר אחר גורלו של סלומונה/ארקולה ובני משפחתו. ומבעד למיקרו-היסטוריה על רב-אמן יהודי שהמיר את דתו נחשפים היחסים המורכבים בין פטרונים ופטרוניות לאמנים, בין יהודים, נוצרים ומומרים, ובין רבי-אמנים ושוליות בסדנאות הרנסנס. כמו כן, נפרשת לפנינו פנורמה רחבה של חצרות משפחות אסטה, גונזאגה ובורג'ה, המדיניות כלפי נאשמים ביחסים חד-מיניים, מעמדן של הקהילות היהודיות, גל המרות הדת בצפון איטליה, נזירות ממוצא יהודי, וההשלכות ההרסניות של מלחמות איטליה (1494- 1530).
הודות למעמדו המקצועי הרם של הצורף נותר תיעוד רב עליו ועל פרשות הקשורות בו. על סמך מבחר עצום של מסמכים ארכיוניים עוקבת תמר הרציג בספר סיפורו של מומר אחר גורלו של סלומונה/ארקולה ובני משפחתו. ומבעד למיקרו-היסטוריה על רב-אמן יהודי שהמיר את דתו נחשפים היחסים המורכבים בין פטרונים ופטרוניות לאמנים, בין יהודים, נוצרים ומומרים, ובין רבי-אמנים ושוליות בסדנאות הרנסנס. כמו כן, נפרשת לפנינו פנורמה רחבה של חצרות משפחות אסטה, גונזאגה ובורג'ה, המדיניות כלפי נאשמים ביחסים חד-מיניים, מעמדן של הקהילות היהודיות, גל המרות הדת בצפון איטליה, נזירות ממוצא יהודי, וההשלכות ההרסניות של מלחמות איטליה (1494- 1530).
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy, and 15 moreRenaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, Renaissance Italy, Conversion Narratives, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, Sodomy, History of Homosexuality, Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d'Este, Renaissance Mantua, Eleonora D'Aragona, Ercole I d'Este, Renaissance Swords, Jewish conversion to Christianity, and Renaissance Jewellery
https://www.viella.it/download/7275/eccee965ddfd/storia-ebreo-convertito-tamar-herzig.pdf Storia di un ebreo convertito Arte, criminalità e religione nell'Italia del Rinascimento traduzione di Stefano U. Baldassarri e Donatella Downey... more
https://www.viella.it/download/7275/eccee965ddfd/storia-ebreo-convertito-tamar-herzig.pdf
Storia di un ebreo convertito Arte, criminalità e religione nell'Italia del Rinascimento traduzione di Stefano U. Baldassarri e Donatella Downey Nato a Firenze a metà del Quattrocento da una famiglia ebraica, l'orafo Salomone da Sessa si trasferì a Ferrara, dove i suoi raffinati gioielli e le sue spade riccamente decorate erano ritenute di altissimo pregio dalle donne e dagli uomini di potere allora più importanti in Italia. Voci scandalose sul suo conto iniziarono a circolare all'interno della comunità ebraica, che lo denunciò alle autorità civili. Accusato di sodomia, Salomone fu condannato a morte e accettò di convertirsi per avere salva la vita. Nel 1491 venne così battezzato e prese il nome di Ercole de' Fedeli. Grazie al sostegno di potenti mecenati come la duchessa Eleonora d'Aragona e il suo omonimo duca d'Este, Ercole visse poi da cattolico praticante per oltre un trentennio. Attraverso la drammatica vicenda di Salomone/Ercole e della sua famiglia, ricostruita sulla base di fonti archivistiche mai utilizzate prima, Tamar Herzig getta luce sulle relazioni ebraico-cristiane, il mecenatismo e l'omosessualità nelle città italiane del XV e XVI secolo e dimostra per la prima volta quanto la conversione degli ebrei fosse una questione centrale nella politica del Rinascimento, già cinquanta anni prima che la Chiesa ne facesse una priorità.
Storia di un ebreo convertito Arte, criminalità e religione nell'Italia del Rinascimento traduzione di Stefano U. Baldassarri e Donatella Downey Nato a Firenze a metà del Quattrocento da una famiglia ebraica, l'orafo Salomone da Sessa si trasferì a Ferrara, dove i suoi raffinati gioielli e le sue spade riccamente decorate erano ritenute di altissimo pregio dalle donne e dagli uomini di potere allora più importanti in Italia. Voci scandalose sul suo conto iniziarono a circolare all'interno della comunità ebraica, che lo denunciò alle autorità civili. Accusato di sodomia, Salomone fu condannato a morte e accettò di convertirsi per avere salva la vita. Nel 1491 venne così battezzato e prese il nome di Ercole de' Fedeli. Grazie al sostegno di potenti mecenati come la duchessa Eleonora d'Aragona e il suo omonimo duca d'Este, Ercole visse poi da cattolico praticante per oltre un trentennio. Attraverso la drammatica vicenda di Salomone/Ercole e della sua famiglia, ricostruita sulla base di fonti archivistiche mai utilizzate prima, Tamar Herzig getta luce sulle relazioni ebraico-cristiane, il mecenatismo e l'omosessualità nelle città italiane del XV e XVI secolo e dimostra per la prima volta quanto la conversione degli ebrei fosse una questione centrale nella politica del Rinascimento, già cinquanta anni prima che la Chiesa ne facesse una priorità.
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy, and 15 moreRenaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, Renaissance Italy, Conversion Narratives, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, Sodomy, History of Homosexuality, Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d'Este, Renaissance Mantua, Eleonora D'Aragona, Ercole I d'Este, Renaissance Swords, Jewish conversion to Christianity, and Renaissance Jewellery
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy, and 14 moreRenaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, Conversion Narratives, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, Sodomy, History of Homosexuality, Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d'Este, Renaissance Mantua, Eleonora D'Aragona, Renaissance Jewellry, Ercole I d'Este, Renaissance Swords, and Jewish conversion to Christianity
Research Interests: Early Modern Italy, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Dominican History, Catherine of Siena, Girolamo Savonarola, and 16 moreRenaissance Ferrara, Early Modern Astrology and Prophecy, Visions, Renaissance Italy, Canonization and sanctity, Dominican Order, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Savonarolan Movement, Religious Reform Movements, Medieval Prophecyy, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, Caterina Mattei Da Racconigi, Osanna Andreasi, Arcangela Panigarola, Colomba Da Rieti, and Caterina De' Ricci
Research Interests: Hagiography, Demonology, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Dominican History, Franciscan Spirituality, and 29 moreHeresy and Inquisition, Eucharistic Theology, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Fifteenth century history, Devotional literature, Religious Studies, Catherine of Siena, Renaissance Ferrara, Moravia, Olomouc, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Protestant Reformation, Stigmata, Bohemian Reformation, Dominican Order, Sixteenth Century History, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Bohemian Brethren, Early printing history, Witchhunts and Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition, Female Mysticism, Inter-Religious Polemics, Hussitism, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, Colomba Da Rieti, Heinrich Institoris, Malleus Maleficarum, and Stefana Quinzani
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Early Modern Italy, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Dominican History, Girolamo Savonarola, Renaissance Ferrara, and 11 moreVisions, Canonization and sanctity, Dominican Order, influence OF Girolamo Savonarola, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Savonarolan Movement, Religious Reform Movements, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, Caterina Mattei Da Racconigi, Arcangela Panigarola, and Colomba Da Rieti
A Luso-Malay cosmographer who claimed to have discovered Ophir, a Franciscan friar who headed a delegation of shabby fraudulent emissaries from the Orient, a Dominican tertiary's confirmed stigmata eventually revealed as fraud but later... more
A Luso-Malay cosmographer who claimed to have discovered Ophir, a Franciscan friar who headed a delegation of shabby fraudulent emissaries from the Orient, a Dominican tertiary's confirmed stigmata eventually revealed as fraud but later venerated again as saintly, a Jewish convert who was suspected of both demonic possession and of feigned sanctity, poor folk who survived by converting time and again in order to enjoy the benefits accorded to neophytes, religious chameleons who adapted themselves to the surroundings in which they found themselves, and a number of possessed girls – these are some of the figures re-enacting their charade in the pages of this volume. Twelve distinguished scholars analyze categories and individual cases of imposture in the age of geographical discoveries, of debates over the category of sanctity, and of forced conversions, thus offering a more nuanced understanding of the meaning of identity and pretense, truth and falsehood, in early modern Europe.
Research Interests: Self and Identity, Calvinism, Cultural Encounters, Cultural Identity, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, and 14 moreThe Spanish Inquisition, Renegades, Early Modern Cultural History, Early modern religious history, Roman Inquisition, Medieval Visionaries, Stigmata, Lie Lying Deception Deceit Liar Truth Truthful Kant, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Hybridity and Cultural Identity, Demonic Possession, Simulation and Dissimulation, Religious Dissimulation, and Modern Visionaries
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Demonology, Witchcraft (Magic), Heresy and Inquisition, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Medieval heresy, and 8 moreLate medieval popular religion, heterodoxy and heresy, memory in the later Middle Ages., Bohemian Brethren, Witchhunts and Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition, Inter-Religious Polemics, Moravian History, Hussitism, and Heinrich Institoris
This essay critically reexamines the career of Bernardetto Buonromei (d. c. 1616), a physician who is celebrated today as one of Livorno’s founding fathers. It argues that Buonromei’s expertise as a medical practitioner was instrumental... more
This essay critically reexamines the career of Bernardetto Buonromei (d. c. 1616), a physician who is celebrated today as one of Livorno’s founding fathers. It argues that Buonromei’s expertise as a medical practitioner was instrumental for turning the Tuscan port city of Livorno into
a major stronghold of the early modern Mediterranean slave trade. Buonromei’s fame in the early seventeenth century, it proposes, reflected the high esteem with which the Medici Grand Dukes held his contribution to the Tuscan state’s involvement in religiously justified slaving. The essay analyzes documentary evidence regarding Buonromei’s exceptionally cruel treatment of enslaved Jews and Muslims who were placed under his care while he was serving as the physician in charge of
Livorno’s slave prison. It demonstrates that Cosimo II continued to back Buonromei despite repeated complaints about the physician’s excessively ruthless conduct. The final part of the essay delineates the varied manifestations of Buonromei’s cultural commemoration from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The continuous textual, artistic, and performative celebrations of Buonromei’s accomplishments, it concludes, complements the erasure of the suffering he had inflicted on enslaved non-Catholics in Livorno.
a major stronghold of the early modern Mediterranean slave trade. Buonromei’s fame in the early seventeenth century, it proposes, reflected the high esteem with which the Medici Grand Dukes held his contribution to the Tuscan state’s involvement in religiously justified slaving. The essay analyzes documentary evidence regarding Buonromei’s exceptionally cruel treatment of enslaved Jews and Muslims who were placed under his care while he was serving as the physician in charge of
Livorno’s slave prison. It demonstrates that Cosimo II continued to back Buonromei despite repeated complaints about the physician’s excessively ruthless conduct. The final part of the essay delineates the varied manifestations of Buonromei’s cultural commemoration from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The continuous textual, artistic, and performative celebrations of Buonromei’s accomplishments, it concludes, complements the erasure of the suffering he had inflicted on enslaved non-Catholics in Livorno.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This article unpacks the 1610 case of a multiple perpetrator rape of enslaved female Jews from Tétouan by Catholic convicts and Muslim slaves in Livorno, early modern Italy’s leading slaving center. Adding to the ongoing attempts to... more
This article unpacks the 1610 case of a multiple perpetrator rape of enslaved female Jews from Tétouan by Catholic convicts and Muslim slaves in Livorno, early modern Italy’s leading slaving center. Adding to the ongoing attempts to expose the violence inherent to the historical records of slavery, it charts the efforts to silence the slaves and offers a counternarrative to the one their slavers wished to create by erasing their suffering. The article argues that the assault was justified as part of a business strategy. The rape of female slaves by enslaved men as a means of increasing the slavers’ profits, it suggests, was thus a more global phenomenon than has hitherto been assumed and was not limited to women’s systematic raping in Atlantic slavery. Problematizing the scholarly focus on Muslim-Christian reciprocity in early modern Mediterranean slavery, it then proposes that the affluence of Livorno’s Jewish community increased the vulnerability of enslaved Jews in the city to excessive abuse. Complicating historiographic notions regarding religious pluralism and interethnic relations in Livorno, the assault’s analysis underscores the importance of writing Jewish slave women back into not only the history of slavery but also the narratives of Jewish history and Italian history.
Research Interests: Italian (European History), Slavery, History of Slavery, History of Sexuality, Jewish - Christian Relations, and 15 moreEarly Modern Italy, Muslim-Christian Relation, Early Modern Jewish History, Mediterranean and North Africa, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Livorno, Christian and Jewish Relations, Jews of Livorno, Rape and Violence, Multiple Perpetrator Rape, Slavery Studies in the Middle East, History of Sexual Violence, History of Grand Duchy of Tuscany, early modern livorno, and female slavery
Published Online:
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/M.ES-EB.5.121900
In: Renaissance Religions [Europa Sacra, no. 26], ed. Peter Howard, Nicholas Terpstra, and Riccardo Saccenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 63-79.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/M.ES-EB.5.121900
In: Renaissance Religions [Europa Sacra, no. 26], ed. Peter Howard, Nicholas Terpstra, and Riccardo Saccenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 63-79.
Research Interests: Italian (European History), Jewish History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, and 6 moreEarly Modern Italy, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Early Modern Jewish History, Renaissance Italy, Italian Modern History, and Christian and Jewish Relations
Published Online:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705412
In: Special issue on Fields of the Future/The Future of the Field, ed. Jane C. Tylus: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22:2 (Fall 2019), pp. 311-318.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705412
In: Special issue on Fields of the Future/The Future of the Field, ed. Jane C. Tylus: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22:2 (Fall 2019), pp. 311-318.
Research Interests: Italian (European History), Jewish History, Religious Conversion, Italy (Early Modern History), Jewish - Christian Relations, and 8 moreReligious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Early Modern Italy, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Monasticism, Early Modern Jewish History, Renaissance Italy, Italy Early Modern History, and Christian and Jewish Relations
Published Online:
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004416826/BP000011.xml
In: Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, ed. Mercedes García-Arenal Rodríguez and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan. Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 266-288.
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004416826/BP000011.xml
In: Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, ed. Mercedes García-Arenal Rodríguez and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan. Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 266-288.
Research Interests: Italian (European History), Jewish History, Religious Conversion, Italy (Early Modern History), Jewish - Christian Relations, and 5 moreReligious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Early Modern Italy, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Early Modern Jewish History, and Christian and Jewish Relations
Published Online: https://classiques-garnier.com/femmes-mysticisme-et-prophetisme-en-europe-du-moyen-age-a-l-epoque-moderne-femmes-mystiques-et-propagande-antiheretique.html Cet article analyse les écrits de Heinrich Institoris (alias... more
Published Online:
https://classiques-garnier.com/femmes-mysticisme-et-prophetisme-en-europe-du-moyen-age-a-l-epoque-moderne-femmes-mystiques-et-propagande-antiheretique.html
Cet article analyse les écrits de Heinrich Institoris (alias Kramer). Il défend l’idée que sa présentation de sorcières et d’hérétiques en tant que groupes distincts participant au complot du diable marque un tournant dans le discours démonologique. Explorant les tentatives d'Institoris d'utiliser les expériences spirituelles de femmes italiennes dans sa campagne contre les Hussites, l'auteur affirme qu'il a présenté les manifestations visibles du mysticisme féminin comme le moyen le plus efficace de conjurer les menaces doctrinales posées par des groupes hérétiques dirigés par des hommes.
https://classiques-garnier.com/femmes-mysticisme-et-prophetisme-en-europe-du-moyen-age-a-l-epoque-moderne-femmes-mystiques-et-propagande-antiheretique.html
Cet article analyse les écrits de Heinrich Institoris (alias Kramer). Il défend l’idée que sa présentation de sorcières et d’hérétiques en tant que groupes distincts participant au complot du diable marque un tournant dans le discours démonologique. Explorant les tentatives d'Institoris d'utiliser les expériences spirituelles de femmes italiennes dans sa campagne contre les Hussites, l'auteur affirme qu'il a présenté les manifestations visibles du mysticisme féminin comme le moyen le plus efficace de conjurer les menaces doctrinales posées par des groupes hérétiques dirigés par des hommes.
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy, Demonology, and 13 moreEuropean Witch Trials, Witchcraft (Magic), History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Italian Renaissance literature, Heresy, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Early Modern Philosophy, Renaissance magic and astrology, Hussites, Hussitism, Heinrich Institoris, Heinrich Krämer, and Holy Woman
A special issue of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme dedicated to the figure of Savonarolan humanist Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola.
Full issue here: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/issue/view/2258
Full issue here: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/issue/view/2258
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance Philosophy, Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and 13 moreDemonology, European Witch Trials, Witchcraft (Magic), History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Plato and Platonism, Italian Renaissance literature, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Early Modern Philosophy, Reception of Antiquity, Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance magic and astrology, Neolatin Literature, and Medieval Devotional Culture
In: Das katholische Europa im 16.-18. Jahrhundert, ed. Adriana Valerio and Maria Laura Giordano (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2018/19), pp. 41-50
Research Interests:
הרפורמציות פתחו פתח לתמורות ניכרות ביחסי המגדר. מאמר זה מתמקד באחת המרכזיות שבהן: ההשפעה המורכבת של ביטול מוסד הנזירות על-ידי מרטין לותר על אפשרויות הפעולה הפתוחות בפני נשים, לעומת אלה העומדות בפני גברים, בתחום הדתי. המאמר בוחן את... more
הרפורמציות פתחו פתח לתמורות ניכרות ביחסי המגדר. מאמר זה מתמקד באחת המרכזיות שבהן: ההשפעה המורכבת של ביטול מוסד הנזירות על-ידי מרטין לותר על אפשרויות הפעולה הפתוחות בפני נשים, לעומת אלה העומדות בפני גברים, בתחום הדתי. המאמר בוחן את תגובותיהן של נשים בחבלי-ארץ שהפכו לפרוטסטנטים לפירוק מנזריהן, ודן בהתמודדות של ראשי הכנסייה הקתולית עם הביקורת הלותרנית על חיי הנזירות בוועידת טרנטו (1545-1563). הוא מראה, כי למרות שהוועדה דחתה את עיקרי-האמונה הפרוטסטנטיים והדגישה את החשיבות של חיי הנזירות, בתגובה לביקורת הלותרנית היא הורתה על סגירה קפדנית של מנזרי נשים, בהותירה לנזירות מרחב פעולה צר ביותר להשתתפות בקידום מטרותיה של הכנסייה הלוחמת.
Research Interests: Women's History, Early Modern History, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Tridentine Catholicism, and 8 moreEarly Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Nuns, Female Monasticism, Medieval nunneries, and Medieval and early Modern female monasticism
Research Interests: Hagiography, History of the Book, Medieval & Renaissance Hagiography & Didactic Texts, History of Printmaking, Medieval manuscripts & early printed books; history of libraries; visual arts & digital media, and 6 morePaleography and editions of medieval manuscripts vs. print-culture editions of medieval texts, Canonization and sanctity, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, History of Books, Printing, and Publishing, History of sanctity, and Holiness
In: Scritture, carismi, istituzioni: Percorsi di vita religiosa in età moderna. Studi per Gabriella Zarri, ed. Concetta Bianca and Anna Scattigno (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018), pp. 139-150.
Research Interests: Hagiography, Renaissance Studies, Catholic Reform, Witch Hunt Studies, Demonology, and 16 moreItalian Wars, Church Reform, European Witch Trials, Witchcraft (Magic), Medieval & Renaissance Hagiography & Didactic Texts, Treatises of demonology and literature, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Canonization and sanctity, Mirandola, Catholic Reformation, History of sanctity, Female Mystics In the Middle Ages, The Italian Wars (Renaissance), Giovan Francesco Pico Della MIrandola, Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola, and Caterina Mattei Da Racconigi
Published Online: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0377.xml?rskey=6gcnE3&result=263
Research Interests: Hagiography, Early Modern History, History of the Book, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance, and 15 moreChristian Mysticism, Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Mysticism, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Medieval & Renaissance Hagiography & Didactic Texts, Holy Women, Religion and Gender, History of the Body, Canonization and sanctity, Canonization Processes, Holiness, pre-Tridentine Catholicism, Holy Men, and Late medieval and early Modern female sanctity
This article argues that converting Jewish girls and women constituted an important expression of Italian nuns' religiosity throughout the age of Catholic Reform. Unlike their male counterparts, however, converting nuns rarely left behind... more
This article argues that converting Jewish girls and women constituted an important expression of Italian nuns' religiosity throughout the age of Catholic Reform. Unlike their male counterparts, however, converting nuns rarely left behind accounts of their conversionary efforts. Moreover, since these endeavors were directed exclusively at female Jews they are often obscured in the historical record and in modern historiography. The article tackles the difficulties of recovering the voices of converting nuns and presents examples that suggest how they could be circumvented. Exploring the potential of drawing on previously understudied texts, such as nuns' supplications, the article calls for the integration of this specific manifestation of female devotion into the scholarship and teaching on women's religious life in the early modern era.
Research Interests: Religious Conversion, Italy (Early Modern History), Jewish - Christian Relations, Early Modern Italy, Monasticism, and 9 moreCouncil of Trent, Convents, Dominican nunneries, Counter-Reformation, Female convents, Female spirituality in the Middle and Modern Ages, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Counter Reformation Italy, and Tridentine Reform
Research Interests: Gender History, History of Sexuality, Jewish History, Italy (Early Modern History), Jewish - Christian Relations, and 9 moreSocial History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Jewish History, Renaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, PERSECUTION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES, Sodomy Laws, Christian and Jewish Relations, and Renaissance courts of Mantua, Ferrara, and Florence
In 1501, Heinrich Institoris (aka Kramer, d. c.1505) published two works exalting the mystical experiences of contemporary women. Drawing on the entire corpus of Institoris’s works, this essay explores his fascination with somatic female... more
In 1501, Heinrich Institoris (aka Kramer, d. c.1505) published two works exalting the mystical experiences of contemporary women. Drawing on the entire corpus of Institoris’s works, this essay explores his fascination with somatic female spirituality. While Institoris’s diatribe on women in the Malleus maleficarum (The Witches’ Hammer, c.1486)—arguably the most misogynistic work of the premodern era—has been ascribed to his fear of women, it proposes that he was no more preoccupied with female witches than he was with men who strayed from Catholic orthodoxy. Regarding the female sex as inferior to the male sex, Institoris maintained that the same qualities that rendered wicked women more
susceptible to witchcraft could turn devout women into the privileged conduits for revelations that confirmed the tenets of Christianity.
susceptible to witchcraft could turn devout women into the privileged conduits for revelations that confirmed the tenets of Christianity.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Christian Mysticism, History Of Emotions, and 18 moreWitch Hunt Studies, Demonology, Early Modern Women, Witchcraft (Magic), Treatises of demonology and literature, Heresy and Inquisition, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Medieval Mysticism, Medieval history, history of emotions, political history, Holy Women, Dominican Order, History of witchcraft, Witchhunts and Inquisition, History of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), History of Witchcraft and Magic, Female Mysticism, Malleus Maleficarum, and Medieval and Early Modern demonology
Female monasticism and the conversion of the Jews were both major concerns for the ecclesiastical establishment, as well as for Italian ruling elites, after the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Hence, the monachization of baptized Jewish... more
Female monasticism and the conversion of the Jews were both major concerns for the ecclesiastical establishment, as well as for Italian ruling elites, after the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Hence, the monachization of baptized Jewish girls acquired a unique symbolic significance. Moreover, during this period cases of demonic possession were on the rise, and so were witchcraft accusations. This article explores a case from late sixteenth-century Mantua in which Jewish conversion, female monachization, demonic possession and witch-hunting all came into play in a violent drama. Drawing on unpublished documents as well as on chronicles and hagiographies, the article elucidates the mental toll that conversion and monachization took on the Jewess Luina, who later became known as Sister Margherita. It delineates her life, which culminated with her diagnosis as a demoniac, and analyzes the significance that this etiology held for the energumen—whose affliction was attributed to her ongoing contacts with Jews—and for Mantua's Jews. The article argues that the anxiety provoked by suspicions that a formerly Jewish nun reverted to Judaism was so profound, that it led to the burning at the stake of Judith Franchetta, the only Jew ever to be executed as a witch in the Italian peninsula.
Research Interests: Italian (European History), Jewish History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, European Witch Trials, and 20 moreReligious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Early Modern Jewish History, Nunneries, Psychology of Religious Conversion, Female, Exorcism, Female Monasticism, Demonic Possession, Female Hagiography, Convents, Dominican nunneries, Dominican Nuns, Witch hunting, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Demonic Possession, Renaissance Mantua, Early Modern Nuns, Witchcraft Demonic Possession, and Renaissance courts of Mantua, Ferrara, and Florence
This article focuses on the vestition ceremony of the baptized Jew Caterina/suor Theodora (1479-1506), which was celebrated in 1501 at the enclosed Dominican tertiaries’ house of Santa Caterina da Siena in Ferrara. It traces the... more
This article focuses on the vestition ceremony of the baptized Jew Caterina/suor Theodora (1479-1506), which was celebrated in 1501 at the enclosed Dominican tertiaries’ house of Santa Caterina da Siena in Ferrara. It traces the vicissitudes that led to the conversion to Christianity of suor Theodora’s father, the renowned Jewish goldsmith and engraver Salomone da Sesso/Ercole de’ Fedeli (c.1452-c.1521)—together with his entire family—following his condemnation for sodomy in 1491. I argue that suor Theodora’s vestition ceremony was aimed at complementing the celebration of her family’s baptism a decade earlier, which culminated with the sermon that her father had been forced to deliver in Ferrara’s cathedral. The duke of Ferrara, Ercole d’Este (r. 1471-1505), whose program of church and convent building and decoration in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was unparalleled, timed the celebration of suor Theodora’s vestition to mark the completion of his most impressive and massive pious foundation. The baptized Jew’s vestition was staged as a performance that manifested Christianity’s victory over Judaism, and showcased the achievements of the duke’s ongoing conversionary efforts. It thus attests to the convergence of Ercole d’Este’s cultural patronage and his profound religiosity during the latter half of his reign.
Research Interests: Religious Conversion, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Monasticism, Medieval Jewish History, Goldsmiths, and 9 moreJewish Artists, Jewish Art History, Renaissance Ferrara, Nuns, Medieval Goldsmith`s Art, Dominican Order, Dominican Nuns, Female monasticism in the Middle and Modern Ages, and Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's
In: Reformas y Contrarreformas en la Europa Católica (siglos XV-XVII), ed. Adriana Valerio and Maria Laura Giordano. Navarre: Editorial Verbo Divino, 2016, pp. 41-51.
Research Interests:
In: Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe, ed. Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Tamar Herzig. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 142-164.
Research Interests: Christian Mysticism, Heresy, Heresy and Inquisition, Mendicant Orders, Catherine of Siena, and 12 moreGirolamo Savonarola, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Observants, St Colette of Corbie (1381-1447), Dominican Order, Female spirituality in the Middle and Modern Ages, Medieval Mendicants, St Catherine of Siena, Female Mysticism, Savonarolan Movement, Observant Reform, and Observant Franciscans
Research Interests: Reformation History, History of the Reformation, Franciscan Studies, Medieval Italy, Catherine of Siena, and 18 moreFrancis of Assisi, Spanish Mysticism, Renaissance Italy, Canonization and sanctity, History of the Franciscan Order, Stigmata, Catholic and Protestant Polemics, Dominican Order, Swiss Reformation, Dissimulation, Canonization Processes, Female Mystics In the Middle Ages, History of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), Stigmatics, Religious Dissimulation, Franciscan Order, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, and María de Santo Domingo
Research Interests:
“Italian Holy Women against Bohemian Heretics: Catherine of Siena and ‘the Second Catherines’ in the Kingdom of Bohemia,” in Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger and Gabriela Signori [Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 13]. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, pp. 315-338.more
Research Interests: Religious History, Heresy and Inquisition, Eucharistic Theology, Fifteenth century history, Catherine of Siena, and 9 moreStigmata, Bohemian Reformation, Sixteenth Century History, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Bohemian Brethren, Female Mysticism, Hussitism, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, and Colomba Da Rieti
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Stigmatization, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Franciscan Spirituality, Catherine of Siena, Francis of Assisi, and 8 moreStigmata, Dominican Order, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Female body, Female Mysticism, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, Caterina De' Ricci, and Domenica Da Paradiso
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Demonology, Heresy and Inquisition, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Witchcraft, Medieval heresy, and 8 moreLate medieval popular religion, heterodoxy and heresy, memory in the later Middle Ages., Bohemian Brethren, Witchhunts and Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition, Inter-Religious Polemics, Moravian History, Hussitism, and Heinrich Institoris
Research Interests:
... It is therefore only reasonable to surmise that he shared his views on the diabolic sect with friars of the Lombard Congregation that he met in the winter of 1499-1500, thereby contributing to the escalating anxiety over witchcraft in... more
... It is therefore only reasonable to surmise that he shared his views on the diabolic sect with friars of the Lombard Congregation that he met in the winter of 1499-1500, thereby contributing to the escalating anxiety over witchcraft in northern Italy. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Renaissance Ferrara, Early Modern Astrology and Prophecy, Canonization and sanctity, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, and 6 moreFemale Mysticism, Savonarolan Movement, Religious Reform Movements, Savonarola, History of the Dominican Order, and Visionary Women
Research Interests: Demonology, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Heresy and Inquisition, Renaissance Ferrara, Heresy and Orthodoxy, and 9 moreMoravia, Medieval Misogyny, Stigmata, Witchhunts and Inquisition, Medieval Inquisition, Female Mysticism, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, Heinrich Institoris, and Malleus Maleficarum
Research Interests: Catholic Reform, Post-Reformation Catholicism, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Late Medieval Religion, Monasticism and Devotion, Girolamo Savonarola, and 12 moreRenaissance Ferrara, Early Modern Astrology and Prophecy, Visions, Canonization and sanctity, Convents, Sainthood, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Dowry, Savonarolan Movement, Lucia Brocadelli Da Narni, History of the Dominican Order, and Sister Girolama Savonarola
Research Interests:
International Conference, co-organized by Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project) and Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University), held at Tel Aviv University in June 2018.
Research Interests:
In Renaissance and early modern Italian society, communities and social groups formed the heart of both individual and corporate identity. Such networks served to support and strengthen the existing social order, yet they were also... more
In Renaissance and early modern Italian society, communities and social groups formed the heart of both individual and corporate identity. Such networks served to support and strengthen the existing social order, yet they were also constantly subject to change and adaptations that external pressures and tensions demanded. This conference seeks to explore the role of cultural production in the creation, operation, and negotiation of social networks in Italy and, conversely, the ways in which these networks facilitated the exchange and translation of images, objects, rituals, and ideas. The papers proposed investigate artistic, literary, familial, political, and religious communities and the relationships between them, as friends or enemies. From networks between humanists, Hapsburg courtiers, and artists to rivalries and competition between and within both secular and religious groups, the individual papers address most aspects of early modern culture and the dynamics that shaped and drove their production and transmission.
Research Interests: Art History, Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Early Modern Europe, and 21 moreItalian Humanism, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Italy (Early Modern History), History of Art, Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, Patronage and collecting, Renaissance Ferrara, Jewish-Christian relations, Early modern Rome, Early modern venice, Renaissance Sculpture, Cultural networks, Eleanora of Toledo, Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d'Este, Renaissance Mantua, Renaissance Venice Art History, Letter-writing, Renaissance Gardens, and Renaissance courts of Mantua, Ferrara, and Florence
In Renaissance and early modern Italian society, communities and social groups formed the heart of both individual and corporate identity. Such networks served to support and strengthen the existing social order, yet they were also... more
In Renaissance and early modern Italian society, communities and social groups formed the heart of both individual and corporate identity. Such networks served to support and strengthen the existing social order, yet they were also constantly subject to change and adaptations that external pressures and tensions demanded. This conference seeks to explore the role of cultural production in the creation, operation, and negotiation of social networks in Italy and, conversely, the ways in which these networks facilitated the exchange and translation of images, objects, rituals, and ideas. The papers proposed investigate artistic, literary, familial, political, and religious communities and the relationships between them, as friends or enemies. From networks between humanists, Hapsburg courtiers, and artists to rivalries and competition between and within both secular and religious groups, the individual papers address most aspects of early modern culture and the dynamics that shaped and drove their production and transmission.
Research Interests:
Conference organized by the Curiel Institute for European Studies at TAU and Camões - Instituto da Cooperação
e da Língua, Portugal.
e da Língua, Portugal.
Research Interests: Cultural History, African Studies, Portuguese History, African History, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, and 15 moreHistory of Cartography, History Portuguese and Spanish, Jesuit history, Religious Conversion, History of the Portuguese Empire, Religious History, Portuguese Art History, Jesuit missionaries, Conversos in Iberia, missionaries in Africa, Portuguese colonialism in Africa, Philip III of Spain, Marranos Crypto-Jews Anusim Sephardics Sephardic-Jews Spanish-Jews Judaism Converts Proselytes, Early Modern Portugal, and Portuguese cartography
Second Joint University of Maryland-Tel Aviv University Workshop Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era September 30th and October 1st, 2015 Francis Scott Key Hall 2120 University of... more
Second Joint University of Maryland-Tel Aviv University Workshop
Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
September 30th and October 1st, 2015
Francis Scott Key Hall 2120
University of Maryland, College Park
Wednesday, September 30
10:00-12:00 Language and Religion: Boundary or Frontier
Chair: Philip Soergel
Christopher Celenza
Johns Hopkins University
The Problem of the Latin Language in the Italian Renaissance.
Stefano Villani
University of Maryland
Becoming Italian: Early Modern British Converts and the Inquisition
Shai Zamir
Tel Aviv University
The Image of the Jewish Woman in the Trent Blood Libel (1475)
Lunch Break
1:45-5:00 Gender, Sexuality and Behavioral Practices
Chair: Marsha Rozenblit
Pawel Maciejko
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sexuality and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz
Hugo Brulhart
University of Maryland
Sodomy & Crime in 16th-Century Geneva
Tamar Herzig
Tel Aviv University
Being a 'Jewish Nun' in Early Modern Italy
Eyda Merediz
University of Maryland
Canary Islands’ Malinches: Happy Foundational Couples in the Atlantic?
Thursday, October 1
9:10-10:45 Change in the Marketplace; Change in the Environment
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Robert Friedel
University of Maryland
Beer, Cheese, and Bread. Men, Women, and Work in Early Modern Britain.
Noel Johnson
George Mason University
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks
11:00–12:30 Labeling People
Chair: Tamar Herzig
Ira Berlin
University of Maryland
What’s In a Name?
Bernard Cooperman
University of Maryland
Race, Slavery, and Synagogue Honors
Holly Brewer
University of Maryland
Identifying People as Property. Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its Empire
Lunch Break
1:45–4:30 Cultural Shifts
Chair: Stefano Villani
Andrea Frisch
University of Maryland
Moving History: Affect & National Memory after the French Wars of Religion
Ralph Bauer
University of Maryland
Lucretius' New World: Cannibalism, Materialism, and Humanism in the Early Modern Encounter with the Americas
Jonathan Allen
University of Maryland
Excluding and Defending Tomb-Visitation in Early Modern Ottoman Islam?
Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
September 30th and October 1st, 2015
Francis Scott Key Hall 2120
University of Maryland, College Park
Wednesday, September 30
10:00-12:00 Language and Religion: Boundary or Frontier
Chair: Philip Soergel
Christopher Celenza
Johns Hopkins University
The Problem of the Latin Language in the Italian Renaissance.
Stefano Villani
University of Maryland
Becoming Italian: Early Modern British Converts and the Inquisition
Shai Zamir
Tel Aviv University
The Image of the Jewish Woman in the Trent Blood Libel (1475)
Lunch Break
1:45-5:00 Gender, Sexuality and Behavioral Practices
Chair: Marsha Rozenblit
Pawel Maciejko
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sexuality and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz
Hugo Brulhart
University of Maryland
Sodomy & Crime in 16th-Century Geneva
Tamar Herzig
Tel Aviv University
Being a 'Jewish Nun' in Early Modern Italy
Eyda Merediz
University of Maryland
Canary Islands’ Malinches: Happy Foundational Couples in the Atlantic?
Thursday, October 1
9:10-10:45 Change in the Marketplace; Change in the Environment
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Robert Friedel
University of Maryland
Beer, Cheese, and Bread. Men, Women, and Work in Early Modern Britain.
Noel Johnson
George Mason University
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks
11:00–12:30 Labeling People
Chair: Tamar Herzig
Ira Berlin
University of Maryland
What’s In a Name?
Bernard Cooperman
University of Maryland
Race, Slavery, and Synagogue Honors
Holly Brewer
University of Maryland
Identifying People as Property. Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its Empire
Lunch Break
1:45–4:30 Cultural Shifts
Chair: Stefano Villani
Andrea Frisch
University of Maryland
Moving History: Affect & National Memory after the French Wars of Religion
Ralph Bauer
University of Maryland
Lucretius' New World: Cannibalism, Materialism, and Humanism in the Early Modern Encounter with the Americas
Jonathan Allen
University of Maryland
Excluding and Defending Tomb-Visitation in Early Modern Ottoman Islam?
Research Interests: Self and Identity, Early Modern History, Identity (Culture), History of Slavery, Jewish - Christian Relations, and 16 moreSlave Trade, Early modern Ottoman History, Early Modern Britain, Islamic History, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, French Wars of Religion, Latin Language, Lucretius, Canary Islands, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), LGBT History, Beer and Brewery History, History of Gender and Sexuality, European Encounters with Native Americans, and Lucretian Studies
Joint Tel Aviv University-University of Maryland Workshop to be held at Tel Aviv University on 14-16 June, 2015.
Research Interests: Self and Identity, Identity (Culture), Jewish - Christian Relations, Russian History, Early Modern Italy, and 13 moreEarly Modern economic and social history, Muslim-Christian Relations, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Gypsies & Travellers, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), LGBT History, Gypsies, European and Ottoman relations in Early Modern of Europe, Female Monasticism, Witches' Sabbat, Early Modern Spain and Spanish America, History of Gender and Sexuality, and European Encounters with Native Americans
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Book presentation of Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy, and 15 moreRenaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, Renaissance Italy, Conversion Narratives, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, Sodomy, History of Homosexuality, Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance Mantua, Isabelle D'Este, Eleonora D'Aragona, Ercole I d'Este, Renaissance Swords, Jewish conversion to Christianity, and Renaissance Jewellery
Book presentation of Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious History, Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy, and 14 moreRenaissance Ferrara, LGBT History, Conversion Narratives, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, Sodomy, History of Homosexuality, Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance Mantua, Isabelle D'Este, Eleonora D'Aragona, Ercole I d'Este, Renaissance Swords, Jewish conversion to Christianity, and Renaissance Jewellery
Book presentation of Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Research Interests:
Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Harvard University Press, 2019 (book talk). February 6, 2020.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Christian Mysticism, Visions And Dreams, Women's and gender history, Girolamo Savonarola, Renaissance Ferrara, and 7 moreReform Movements, Prophecy, Renaissance Italy, Dominican Order, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, History of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), and Savonarolan Movement
Research Interests: Women's History, Early Modern Europe, Church Reform, Visions And Dreams, Dominican History, and 11 moreGirolamo Savonarola, Italian Renaissance, Reform Movements, Prophecy, Italian History, Canonization and sanctity, Dominican Order, Female sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, Canonization Processes, Savonarolism, and Savonarolan Movement
Research Interests: Christian Mysticism, Eucharist, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Holy Women, Perugia - Middle Ages / Perugia - medioevo, and 7 moreFemale sanctity in the Middle and Modern Ages, History of Christian Asceticism, Female Mystics In the Middle Ages, Eucharistic Devotion, Colomba Da Rieti, Heinrich Institoris, and Malleus Maleficarum
Research Interests:
תמר הרציג וצור שלו, "'הקולות של הנשים עצמן חסרו לי': שיחה עם לינדל רופר," זמנים: רבעון היסטורי 140 (2019), עמ' 102-115. Tamar Herzig and Zur Shalev, “A Conversation with Lyndal Roper,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly [in Hebrew] 140... more
תמר הרציג וצור שלו, "'הקולות של הנשים עצמן חסרו לי': שיחה עם לינדל רופר," זמנים: רבעון היסטורי 140 (2019), עמ' 102-115.
Tamar Herzig and Zur Shalev, “A Conversation with Lyndal Roper,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly [in Hebrew] 140 (2019), pp. 102-115.
Tamar Herzig and Zur Shalev, “A Conversation with Lyndal Roper,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly [in Hebrew] 140 (2019), pp. 102-115.
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, Early Modern History, German History, Gender History, Reformation History, and 12 moreReformation Studies, History of Sexuality, History of the Reformation, European Witch Trials, Social History, Feminist history, History of Historiography, Early Modern European Witchcraft, Early modern Germany, Martin Luther, History of the Body, and Lyndal Roper
Research Interests:
Contemplata aliis tradere. Lo specchio letterario dei frati Predicatori
Roma, 23-27 gennaio 2017
Roma, 23-27 gennaio 2017