NetMAR International Conference

Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages

University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023

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Wednesday, 03 May 2023

Location: An der Universität 5 (r. 02/22)

09:00-09:30

Welcome Speech by Christine Gerhardt (Vice President for Diversity and International Affairs, Bamberg)

Introduction by Ingrid Bennewitz (Head of ZeMas, Bamberg) and Michaela Pölzl (Scientific Project Manager, NetMAR)

09:30-11:00

Rosa Rodriguez Porto (Santiago di Compostella): Staging Queenship in the Libro de la Coronación (Escorial, &.III.3)

Clara Humrich (Konstanz): Women’s Devotional Fashion in Books of Hours

Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (Madrid): Fashion, Gender, and Performance in the Fifteenth Century: The Castilian Queens’ Wardrobe as a Case of Study

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:00

Gustav Zamore (Cambridge): Dancing, Defecating, and Disrupting: Women in High and Late Medieval Sacred Spaces

Katrina Rosie (Kingston): The “Loom of Life” and the “Baited Snare”: The Paradox of Women’s Bodies in Ritual Contexts

Davide Tramarin (Padua): Nuns’ Bodily and Sensory Experiences. The Rituals of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal, Between Shared Performance and Individual Meditative Practices

13:00-14:30

Lunch break

14:30-16:00

Lars Boje Mortensen (Odense): Two Sets of Masculine Values in the 12th century: William of Tyre and Saxo Grammaticus

Janina Dillig (Bamberg): Rituals of Gender Bending in German Medieval Literature

Gerlinde Gangl (Bamberg): Squabbling, Gossiping Women in the Middle Ages. Carrying Stones as Penalties and Symbolic Ways of Communication

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:30

Kouadio Kouamé (Bamberg): ‘Blurred Gender’ and Liturgy of Power in the Middle Ages: Eunuchs and Staging of Political Power in Byzantium and in the West African Songhay Empire

Lora Webb (Istanbul): See from where you assume your rank. The Invisible Power of Eunuchs in Byzantine Ceremony

17:30-18:00

Coffee break

18:00-19:00

Keynote address by Anne Derbes (Frederick, MD): Birth and Rebirth in Late Medieval Italy: Ritual and Gender in the Baptistery of Padua

19:30

Dinner

Thursday, 04 May 2023

Location: An der Universität 5 (r. 02/22)

09:00-10:30

Stavroula Constantinou (Cyprus): Rituals of Motherhood in Byzantine Hagiography

Andria Andreou (Cyprus): Gender Staging in Byzantine Passions of Spouses

Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky (Salamanca): Visual Ritual: The Entrance and Exit of Saint Marina the Monk in Manuscript Illuminations

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Bill Rebiger (Halle): Discussions of Women’s Issues by Men in Medieval Jewish Magic

Lilian R. G. Diniz (Berlin): Female Magic and Religious Subversion in Caesarius of Arles

Fedor Nekhaenko (Potsdam): Witchery Rites Constructed by XIII Century Dominicans

12:30-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:30

Lauren Van Nest (Virginia): Regina et Regnum: The Coronation of Queen Kunigunde in the Pericopes of Henry II (Clm 4452, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

Sabina Rosenbergová (Rom): The Berta Evangeliary (10th Century, Rome) and its Gender-Specific Ritual Function

Eirini Afentoulidou (Vienna): Churching the Child in Byzantine Prayerbooks (Euchologia): Questions of Gender Staging and Ritual Expertise

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:30

Korinna Gonschorek (Munich): Differing Sexual Encounters and their Implications on Gender Roles in the Versions of Partonopeus de Blois

Marion Darilek (Tübingen): Rituals of Female (Dis-)Empowerment: Baptism in the Context of Conversion in Medieval German Literature

Ingrid Bennewitz (Bamberg): Gone to the Dogs. Gender Constructions in the Context of Human-Animal Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

17:30-18:00

Round Table Discussion

19:00

Dinner

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