Savonarola's Women : Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy - Tamar Herzig

Savonarola's Women

Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy

By: Tamar Herzig

Hardcover | 1 December 2007

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Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), the religious reformer, preacher, and Florentine civic leader, was burned at the stake as a false prophet by the order of Pope Alexander VI. Tamar Herzig here explores the networks of Savonarola’s female followers that proliferated in the two generations following his death. Drawing on sources from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many never before studied, transcribed, or contextualized in Savonarolan scholarship and religious history, Herzig shows how powerful public figures and clerics continued to ally themselves with these holy women long after the prophet’s death.

In their quest to stay true to their leader’s teachings, Savonarola’s female followers faced hostile superiors within their orders, local political pressures, and the deep-rooted misogynistic assumptions of the Church establishment. This unprecedented volume demonstrates how reform circles throughout the Italian peninsula each tailored Savonarola’s life and works to their particular communities’ regionally specific needs. Savonarola’s Women is an important reconstruction of women’s influence on one of the most important and controversial religious movements in premodern Europe.
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"Tamar Herzig has succeeded in discovering important documents which had eluded earlier researchers in the field. Her study represents an important contribution to the lively fields of Savonarolism, female spirituality, and religious history at the very time of the breakup of Western Christendom. This is no small feat." - Lorenzo Polizzotto, University of Western Australia"

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