Tamar Herzig
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1046461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamar Herzig |
| NOMBRES | Tamar |
| APELLIDO | Herzig |
| FIRMA | HERZIG T |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2785-122X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Religious Conflicts, Enslavement, and Sexual Violence
This article examines the different types of sexual violence inflicted on enslaved females who were captured during the War of Candia (1645–69). Women and girls constituted an exceptionally high percentage of the individuals enslaved in the course of this religiously justified war. Many of the captured Muslims were trafficked to Catholic Europe, where they were subjected to various forms of sexual exploitation. Yet this article suggests that the …
Contending with interreligious rape in the 16th and 17th centuries
This essay compares the ways in which interreligious sexual violence against female Jews is depicted in literary sources with the social realities documented in rabbinic responsa and supplications from the 16th and 17th centuries. All extant accounts of sexual violence against female Jews were written by men; rabbis, chroniclers, learned authors, and community leaders. Nonetheless, this essay argues that literary depictions written or published i…
I confini della salvezza
Religious Attraction and Its Discontents
Both female monasticism and Jewish conversion acquired an accentuated significance in Catholic Europe during the age of reformations. Their convergence was ritually expressed in the celebration of the monastic vestition of converts from Judaism. This article centres on the experiences of baptized Jewish girls who entered monastic communities, based on an analysis of cases from central and northern Italy. It argues that Church authorities valued t…
Bynum across the Generations
In this afterword to the Common Knowledge symposium "Caroline Walker Bynum across the Disciplines," Bynum's early work is seen to have revolutionized the fields of medieval studies and religious studies by disclosing the need to account for the embodied and gendered aspects of Christian spirituality. It reflects on the enduring influence of her book Holy Feast and Holy Fast on the study of premodern mysticism, sanctity, and witchcraft, then discu…
Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Commemoration in Livorno
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 whi…
Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence
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 ar…
Languages of Power in Italy (1300–1600)
The Future of Studying Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Italy
Violence and Justice in Bologna 1250–1700
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The Arras Witch Treatises
The Arras Witch Treatises: Johannes Tinctor’s “Invectives contre la secte de vauderie” and the “Recollectio Casus, Status et Condicionis Valdensium Ydolatrarum” by the Anonymous of Arras (1460). Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau, eds. and trans. Magic in History Sourcebooks. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. ix + 158 pp. $24.95. - Volume 70 Issue 3
For the Salvation of This Girl's Soul
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 tackle…
The Hazards of Conversion
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 …
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-fa
Renegade women
Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence . By Sharon T. Strocchia
The Demons and the Friars
In 1473 Pope Sixtus IV instructed the vicar of the Bishop of Bologna to investigate rumors concerning Carmelite friars who were preaching that summoning demons in order to obtain responses from them was not heretical. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, this article elucidates the circumstances that led the Franciscan pope to intervene in a conflict between the Bolognese Carmelites and the Dominican inquisitor Simone of Novara. It propo…
The Scourge of Demons
Jeffrey R. Watt. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xii+300 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–1–58046–298–3. - Volume 62 Issue 3
Bridging North and South
This article reconstructs a network of Dominican inquisitors who facilitated the reception and adaptation of northern European demonological notions in the Italian peninsula. It focuses on the collaboration of Italian friars with Heinrich Kramer, the infamous Alsatian witch-hunter and author of the Malleus Maleficarum (1486). Drawing on newly-discovered archival sources as well as on published works from the early sixteenth century, it proposes t…
Fire in the City
Witches, Saints, and Heretics
The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary
Der vorliegende Aufsatz behandelt die Rolle Lucia Brocadellis bei der Entstehung und Ausbreitung der von Girolamo Savonarola begründeten Reform- und Frömmigkeitsbewegung. Ihre Übersiedlung von Viterbo nach Ferrara stand in engem Zusammenhang mit Ercole d’Este, einem einflußreichen Anhänger Savonarolas. Bisher von der Historiographie nicht beachtete Quellen machen deutlich, daß Lucia Brocadelli eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Entstehung des Savonar…
The Demons' Reaction to Sodomy
This study draws on theological and demonological works that discuss demons' reaction to sodomy, and concentrates on Gianfrancesco Pico's 1523 dialogue Strix. While the medieval theological view stressed the demons' abhorrence of sodomy and refrainment from engaging in sodomitical relations, fifteenth-century demonologists already found it difficult to reconcile such a view with the newly developed theory of diabolic witchcraft. During the sixtee…
The Demons and the Friars
In 1473 Pope Sixtus IV instructed the vicar of the Bishop of Bologna to investigate rumors concerning Carmelite friars who were preaching that summoning demons in order to obtain responses from them was not heretical. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, this article elucidates the circumstances that led the Franciscan pope to intervene in a conflict between the Bolognese Carmelites and the Dominican inquisitor Simone of Novara. It propo…
Bridging North and South
This article reconstructs a network of Dominican inquisitors who facilitated the reception and adaptation of northern European demonological notions in the Italian peninsula. It focuses on the collaboration of Italian friars with Heinrich Kramer, the infamous Alsatian witch-hunter and author of the Malleus Maleficarum (1486). Drawing on newly-discovered archival sources as well as on published works from the early sixteenth century, it proposes t…
The Future of Studying Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Italy
The Hazards of Conversion
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 …
The Demons' Reaction to Sodomy
This study draws on theological and demonological works that discuss demons' reaction to sodomy, and concentrates on Gianfrancesco Pico's 1523 dialogue Strix. While the medieval theological view stressed the demons' abhorrence of sodomy and refrainment from engaging in sodomitical relations, fifteenth-century demonologists already found it difficult to reconcile such a view with the newly developed theory of diabolic witchcraft. During the sixtee…
The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary
Der vorliegende Aufsatz behandelt die Rolle Lucia Brocadellis bei der Entstehung und Ausbreitung der von Girolamo Savonarola begründeten Reform- und Frömmigkeitsbewegung. Ihre Übersiedlung von Viterbo nach Ferrara stand in engem Zusammenhang mit Ercole d’Este, einem einflußreichen Anhänger Savonarolas. Bisher von der Historiographie nicht beachtete Quellen machen deutlich, daß Lucia Brocadelli eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Entstehung des Savonar…
Witches, Saints, and Heretics
Fire in the City
Bridging North and South
This article reconstructs a network of Dominican inquisitors who facilitated the reception and adaptation of northern European demonological notions in the Italian peninsula. It focuses on the collaboration of Italian friars with Heinrich Kramer, the infamous Alsatian witch-hunter and author of the Malleus Maleficarum (1486). Drawing on newly-discovered archival sources as well as on published works from the early sixteenth century, it proposes t…
The Scourge of Demons
Jeffrey R. Watt. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xii+300 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–1–58046–298–3. - Volume 62 Issue 3
The Demons and the Friars
In 1473 Pope Sixtus IV instructed the vicar of the Bishop of Bologna to investigate rumors concerning Carmelite friars who were preaching that summoning demons in order to obtain responses from them was not heretical. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, this article elucidates the circumstances that led the Franciscan pope to intervene in a conflict between the Bolognese Carmelites and the Dominican inquisitor Simone of Novara. It propo…
Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence . By Sharon T. Strocchia
Renegade women
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-fa
The Hazards of Conversion
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 …
The Arras Witch Treatises
The Arras Witch Treatises: Johannes Tinctor’s “Invectives contre la secte de vauderie” and the “Recollectio Casus, Status et Condicionis Valdensium Ydolatrarum” by the Anonymous of Arras (1460). Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau, eds. and trans. Magic in History Sourcebooks. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. ix + 158 pp. $24.95. - Volume 70 Issue 3
For the Salvation of This Girl's Soul
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 tackle…
Languages of Power in Italy (1300–1600)
The Future of Studying Jewish Conversion in Renaissance Italy
Violence and Justice in Bologna 1250–1700
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence
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 ar…
Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Commemoration in Livorno
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 whi…
Religious Attraction and Its Discontents
Both female monasticism and Jewish conversion acquired an accentuated significance in Catholic Europe during the age of reformations. Their convergence was ritually expressed in the celebration of the monastic vestition of converts from Judaism. This article centres on the experiences of baptized Jewish girls who entered monastic communities, based on an analysis of cases from central and northern Italy. It argues that Church authorities valued t…
Bynum across the Generations
In this afterword to the Common Knowledge symposium "Caroline Walker Bynum across the Disciplines," Bynum's early work is seen to have revolutionized the fields of medieval studies and religious studies by disclosing the need to account for the embodied and gendered aspects of Christian spirituality. It reflects on the enduring influence of her book Holy Feast and Holy Fast on the study of premodern mysticism, sanctity, and witchcraft, then discu…
Religious Conflicts, Enslavement, and Sexual Violence
This article examines the different types of sexual violence inflicted on enslaved females who were captured during the War of Candia (1645–69). Women and girls constituted an exceptionally high percentage of the individuals enslaved in the course of this religiously justified war. Many of the captured Muslims were trafficked to Catholic Europe, where they were subjected to various forms of sexual exploitation. Yet this article suggests that the …
Contending with interreligious rape in the 16th and 17th centuries
This essay compares the ways in which interreligious sexual violence against female Jews is depicted in literary sources with the social realities documented in rabbinic responsa and supplications from the 16th and 17th centuries. All extant accounts of sexual violence against female Jews were written by men; rabbis, chroniclers, learned authors, and community leaders. Nonetheless, this essay argues that literary depictions written or published i…
I confini della salvezza
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