Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Professor Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University) will lead a roundtable discussion of her article Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno.
Tamar Herzig is a renowned historian of gender, religion, and politics in Renaissance Italy and more recently sexuality and violence in the early modern Mediterranean. She is the author of two prizewinning books, Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2008) and A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (2019) and is currently working on female slavery and interethnic violence in the early modern Mediterranean. Her recent AHR article has won the 2022 Best Article Award of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, and was awarded the Mediterranean Seminar’s Article of the Month Award for July 2022. It has also been discussed in major journalistic venues.