Inbar Strul-Dabull

Inbar Strul-Dabull is a Ph.D. candidate at Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral research focuses on gender and charity in Medicean Florence, with a particular emphasis on Montalvo’s educational institutions. The first, Ancille della Santissima Vergine, known as the Conventino, was dedicated to sheltering and educating underprivileged girls. The second, Ancille della Santissima Trinità , known as La Quiete, was a boarding school geared toward educating girls of the Florentine elite. Inbar holds an M.A. in General History from Tel Aviv University, completed summa cum laude, where her thesis explored everyday life in the Convent of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome. She also possesses a B.A. in General History and Art History from Tel Aviv University, both completed with summa cum laude honors. Inbar’s research has been supported by various prestigious scholarships and grants, including The Foundation for Higher Education & Culture, Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund for Excellence in History, and Chutick Scholarship for Outstanding Female Doctoral Students. She has presented her work at international conferences and has been invited to give lectures on topics ranging from convent life in post-Tridentine Italy to charitable institutions in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Her project at MAP explores understudied aspects of Medici princesses’ education, focusing on Maria de’ Medici, the future queen of France, as a case study. It seeks to contextualize Maria’s education within broader patterns of elite Florentine female education. Subsequently, it will reframe our understanding of the role of the princesses’ education in shaping the Medici dynasty’s ambitions within the broader political context of Europe.