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)

Minni di Virgini cakes will provided as an appropriate refreshment.

About the organisers

Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, a member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum is a co-organiser and host of this Peterhouse event. Please contact her with any queries.