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.
Date:
Monday, 5 February, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:30
Contact name:
Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Contact email:
Event location:
Davidson Room, Peterhouse (Cambridge)