Milk & Blood: Female martyrology in Jewish and Christian traditions
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2024-02-05
Country: United Kingdom
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Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Location
Davidson Room, Peterhouse (Cambridge)
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At Peterhouse, musicologists, and scholars of religion and Old English are joining forces to mark the Feast day of Saint Agatha.
The schedule combines a series of lightning talks with musical performances, all linked to female martyrology, and drawing on Jewish and Christian traditions.Interventions:
- Nursing into Death the Limits of Motherhood Dr Tali Artman-Partock
- Diabolical rage and female martyrs in late antiquity Dr Sophie Lunn Rockliffe
- Ic þe mæg gesecgan: Martyrs’ speech as acts of defiance in the Old English Lives of Juliana and Agnes Dorothy Gardner
- Sounding lineage into the land: the fertile body and the danger of (non)assimilation Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
- Susanna Fayre: Musings on a Sixteenth-Century Sensation Dr Anna Steppler
Musical Performances:
- Hebrew Psalms 1, 121
- Romances de Sol y Delgadina (Morocco and Turkey)
- Dixit Agnes gloriosa by Richard Dering, introduced by Dr. Alana Mailes
- Susanne un jour by Orlando Lassus
- Susanne un giour d’Orlando Lasso by Claudio Merulo (1611)
- Susana un jur Glosada de Hernando de Cabezon (1578)