About
Tamar Herzig (1975) is Associate Professor of History and Director (since October 2014) of the Morris E. Curiel Institute at Tel Aviv University, specializing in early modern European religious and gender history. She currently also serves as the Renaissance Society of America’s Discipline Representative for Religion and as a member of the editorial board of Renaissance Quarterly. Her research interests include the evolution of religious reform movement, heretical currents, and demonological notions from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and her publications have explored the configuration of witchcraft, mystical sanctity and heterodoxy.
She has been the recipient of a George L. Mosse Fellowship, Hanadiv Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, and an Israel Science Foundation research grant. In 2012, she was elected member of the opening group of the Young Academy of Israel (founded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities), and also became member of the humanities and social sciences committee of the Bialik Institute Publishing House. In 2013-2014, she was Jean-François Malle Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy.
Publications
Books:
- Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- The Italian Renaissance (in Hebrew) [Early Modern Europe, 1350-1600, vol. 3]. Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press, 2011; rev. ed., 2014.
- Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith, Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2013.
- Le donne di Savonarola: Spiritualità e devozione nell’Italia del Rinascimento [Revised Italian edition ofSavonarola’s Women], trans. Adelisa Malena and Marianna Scarfone. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2014.
- Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd, ed. Asaph Ben-Tov , Yaacov Deutsch, and Tamar Herzig. Leiden: Brill , 2013.
- (with Miriam Eliav-Feldon), Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015 (in press).
Articles:
- The Demons’ Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix, «Sixteenth Century Journal», 34:1 (April 2003), pp. 53-72.
- The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary: Lucia Brocadelli’s Contribution to the Piagnone Movement, «Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History», 95 (2004), pp. 34-60.
- Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics, «Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft», 1:1 (Summer 2006), pp. 24-55.
- The entries “Rategno, Bernardo of Como”; Cagnazzo, Giovanni of Taggia”; “Isolani, Isidoro,” in The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, 4 vols., ed. Richard M. Golden, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
- Leandro Alberti and the Savonarolan Movement in Northern Italy, in L’Italia dell’inquisitore. Storia e geografia dell’Italia del Cinquecento nella ‘Descrittione’ di Leandro Alberti, ed. Massimo Donattini, Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2007, pp. 81-95.
- Women’s Participation in the Savonarolan Reform in Ferrara. «Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo», 4:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 331-354.
- Bridging North and South: Inquisitorial Networks and Witchcraft Theory on the Eve of the Reformation, «Journal of Early Modern History», 12:5 (December 2008), pp. 361-382.
- Heinrich Kramer e la caccia alle streghe in Italia, in “Non lasciar vivere la malefica”: Le streghe nei trattati e nei processi (secoli XIV-XVII), ed. Dinora Corsi and Matteo Duni, Florence: Florence University Press, 2008, pp. 167-196.
- Le mistiche domenicane nella lotta antiereticale a cavallo del Quattro e Cinquecento, in Il velo, la penna e la parola. Le domenicane: storia, istituzioni e scritture, ed. Gabriella Zarri and Gianni Festa [Biblioteca di Memorie Domenicane 1], Florence: Nerbini, 2009, pp. 133-149.
- Flies, Heretics, and the Gendering of Witchcraft, «Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft», 5:1 (Summer 2010), pp. 51-80.
- Heretics, Witches, and Gender: Inquisitorial Discourse before the Establishment of the Roman Inquisition, Atti dei Convegni Lincei 260 [A dieci anni dall'apertura dell'Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede: Storia e Archivi dell'Inquisizione, edited by Andrea Del Col and Adriano Prosperi] (2011), pp. 197-224.
- The Demons and the Friars: Illicit Magic and Mendicant Rivalry in Renaissance Bologna, «Renaissance Quarterly», 64:4 (Winter 2011), pp. 1025-1058.
- The entries “Armellini, Girolamo”; “Gargnano, Domenico da”; “Pico, Gianfrancesco”; “Savonarolismo”; “Silvestri, Francesco”[in Italian], in Dizionario Storico dell’Inquisizione, 3 vols., ed. Adriano Prosperi, Vincenzo Lavenia, and John Tedeschi, Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2011.
- Methodology and Ideology: The Challenges of Studying Gender History, Proceedings of the Young Scholars’ Forum of the Humanities Division of the Israeli Academy of Sciences 1 (2013), pp. 1-22 [in Hebrew].
- Le ‘sante vive’ italiane tra propaganda antiereticale, appello alla crociata e critica luterana, «Genesis: Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche», 10:1 (2011), pp. 125-146.
- Anti-Jewish Polemics and Female Stigmatization in Renaissance Ferrara, «Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà», 25 [special issue on Ebraismo e cristianesimo in Italia tra '400 e '600: Confronti e convergenze, edited by Luca Baraldi, Tamar Herzig, and Gabriella Zarri] (2012), pp. 113-138.
- Witchcraft Prosecutions in Italy, in The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, ed. Brian P. Levack, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 249-267.
- 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.
- In the Back Row or Behind a Curtain: Women and Academia in Historical Perspective, Newsletter of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 35 (November 2013), pp. 76-81 [in Hebrew].
- Introduction, in Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd, ed. Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, and Tamar Herzig, Leiden: Brill , 2013, pp. 1-9.
- Stigmatized Holy Women as Female Christs, «Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà», 26 [special issue on Discorsi sulle stimmate dal Medioevo all’età contemporanea, edited by Gábor Klaniczay] (2013), pp. 149-174.
- Women, Reformation, and the Bible in Italy, forthcoming in Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Southern Europe, ed. Adriana Valerio and Maria Laura Giordano, vol. 7 of Women and the Bible: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History, general editors: Irmtraud Fischer, Mercedes Navarro Puerto, Jorunn Økland and Adriana Valerio, to be published in English, Italian, German and Spanish by Brill (Leiden), Il Pozzo di Giacobbe (Trapani), Kohlhammer (Stuttgart) and Editorial Verbo Divino (Navarre) respectively (20 pp.).
- Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform, forthcoming in The Observant Reform in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. James Mixson and Bert Roest, Leiden: Brill (35 pp.).
- Gender, Witchcraft, and the Sabbath in Renaissance Italy, forthcoming in Hexensabbat: Fantasien der Nacht und die Erkundung des Imaginären, ed. Wolfgang Behringer, Johannes Dillinger, and Iris Gareis, Weingarten: Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (28 pp.).
