New Study Sheds Light On The Phenomenon Of Female Jewish Slavery And Uncovers Gang Rape In Livorno's Slave Prison

New Study Sheds Light On The Phenomenon Of Female Jewish Slavery And Uncovers Gang Rape In Livorno’s Slave Prison

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of organized gang rape of a group of enslaved Jewish girls and women from North Africa in the Italian city of Livorno at the beginning of the 17th century. The rape was organized by […]

Previously Unkown Manuscript Reveals New Insight Into Medieval Christian Beliefs In England

Previously Unkown Manuscript Reveals New Insight Into Medieval Christian Beliefs In England

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A rare English illuminated medieval prayer roll, believed to be among only a few dozen still in existence worldwide, has been analyzed in a new study to expose Catholic beliefs in England before the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Now in private hands and previously unknown to experts, this meter-long […]