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Christ transformed into a virgin woman : Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the defense of the faith
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ISBN: 9788863725261 8863725268 Year: 2013 Volume: 114 Publisher: Roma : Edizioni di storia e letteratura,

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In 1501, the Alsatian inquisitor and witch-hunter Heinrich Institoris (Kramer) was pursuing Hussites in Moravia. As part of his anti-heretical campaign, he published a pamphlet exalting the stigmatization of Lucia Brocadelli of Narni. In this pamphlet, he also praised the mystical experiences of other contemporary Italian women mystics. The present volume explores the story of this pamphlet – the motivations for its publication, its contents, its circulation, and its influence – and provides the first critical edition of its intriguing text. The intersection of female sanctity and the anxiety over diabolic witchcraft, Christian heterodoxy, Jewish obstinacy, and the growing Turkish threat provides the pamphlet’s compelling backstory. Thus, this book argues that the pamphlet crystallized some of the major religious, cultural, and politico-military concerns that prevailed in Europe shortly before the breakup of Western Christendom.


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A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish Apostasy in renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780674237537 Year: 2019 Publisher: Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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"An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, rejected his faith and converted to Catholicism. In 1491 the renowned Jewish goldsmith Salomone da Sesso converted to Catholicism. Born in the mid-fifteenth century to a Jewish family in Florence, Salomone later settled in Ferrara, where he was regarded as a virtuoso artist whose exquisite jewelry and lavishly engraved swords were prized by Italy's ruling elite. But rumors circulated about Salomone's behavior, scandalizing the Jewish community, who turned him over to the civil authorities. Charged with sodomy, Salomone was sentenced to die but agreed to renounce Judaism to save his life. He was baptized, taking the name Ercole "de' Fedeli" ("One of the Faithful"). With the help of powerful patrons like Duchess Eleonora of Aragon and Duke Ercole d'Este, his namesake, Ercole lived as a practicing Catholic for three more decades. Drawing on newly discovered archival sources, Tamar Herzig traces the dramatic story of his life, half a century before ecclesiastical authorities made Jewish conversion a priority of the Catholic Church"--


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A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 0674242564 0674242556 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press,

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Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.


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A Convert's Tale
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ISBN: 9780674242555 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Le donne di Savonarola : spiritualità e devozione nell'Italia del Rinascimento
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ISBN: 9788843057689 8843057685 Year: 2014 Publisher: Roma: Carocci,

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Il volume si struttura come un’indagine sulle reti delle seguaci di Girolamo Savonarola, numerose nelle due generazioni successive alla morte del predicatore e leader politico, che fu figura di riferimento fondamentale nella Firenze di fine Quattrocento. Nel tentativo di rimanere fedeli agli insegnamenti del loro capo spirituale, queste donne fecero spesso i conti, all’interno degli ordini religiosi cui appartenevano, con l’ostilità dei superiori; subirono inoltre pressioni politiche, oltre a dover sopportare quell’avversità nei confronti del protagonismo femminile che era ben radicata nelle gerarchie cattoliche. Il libro offre dunque un’importante ricostruzione della presenza femminile in uno dei più significativi e controversi movimenti religiosi europei della prima età moderna.


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Dissimulation and deceit in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9781137447487 1137447486 Year: 2015 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"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 analyse 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 pretence, truth and falsehood, in early modern Europe"--


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Storia di un ebreo convertito : arte, criminalità e religione nell'Italia del Rinascimento
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ISBN: 9791254692325 Year: 2023 Publisher: Roma : Viella.

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Knowledge and religion in early modern Europe : studies in honor of Michael Heyd
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ISBN: 9789004225640 Year: 2013 Volume: 219 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Knowledge and religion in early modern Europe : studies in honor of Michael Heyd
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ISBN: 900423148X 1299467989 9781299467989 9789004231481 9789004225640 9004225641 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The interplay between knowledge and religion forms a pivotal component of how early modern individuals and societies understood themselves and their surroundings. Knowledge of the self in pursuit of salvation, humanistic knowledge within a confessional education, as well as inherently subversive knowledge acquired about religion(s) offer instructive instances of this interplay. To these are added essays on medical knowledge in its religious and social contexts, the changing role of imagination in scientific thought, the philosophical and political problems of representation, and attempts to counter Enlightenment criteria of knowledge at the end of the period, serving here as multifaceted studies of the dynamics and shifts in sensitivity and stress in the interplay between knowledge and religion within evolving early modern contexts.

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