Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm Venue: Ramsden Roomm, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
An Inter-disciplinary Exchange of Doctoral Researchers between Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. Organised by Professors Nora Berend and Miri Rubin on the themes of ‘Religion and Gender’ and ‘Crossing Boundaries’ on 16 November 2018 in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
Schedule:
11-12:30 Session I – Chair: Professor Miri Rubin, QMUL
Jessica Tearney-Pearce (Cambridge) Worship at sea in the medieval Mediterranean: the case of the Madonna of Trapani
Hannah Cole (Queen Mary University of London) The female travelling companions of Felix Fabri
12.30 Lunch
1:45-3:15 Session II, Chair: Professor Nora Berend, Cambridge
Amanda Langley (Queen Mary University of London) Feeding, Healing, and Clothing the Soul: Agnes Blannbekin and the Urban Stations of Christ
Tom Hewitt (Cambridge) ‘Pagan’ Sacrifice as a form of worship in Medieval Prussia
Vedran Sulovsky (Cambridge) Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190) and Beatrix of Burgundy as Patrons of the Cult of Saint Charlemagne
COFFEE
3:45-4:45 Session III, Chair: Professor Nora Berend, Cambridge
Gabriele Passabì (Cambridge) Crossing boundaries of genre: Robert of Torigni's Chronography between Chronica and Historia
Davor Salihović (Cambridge) Omnia obscura erant: Coincidence between Political and Religious Borders at the Balkan ‘Bulwark of Christendom’ in the Fifteenth Century
5-6 Session IV, Chair: Professor Miri Rubin, QMUL
Rodrigo García-Velasco (Cambridge) Non-Christians, wrongdoing and community boundaries in the fueros of twelfth-century Iberia
Ceil Reid (Queen Mary University of London) Convivencia or coexistencia? Urban settlement in fourteenth century Ávila and Belorado according to a census and several charters
Final Comments