{"id":3300,"date":"2023-04-06T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T22:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/cemar\/nic-rituals-of-gender-staging-and-performance\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T01:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:06:39","slug":"nic-rituals-of-gender-staging-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/cemar\/nic-rituals-of-gender-staging-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"NetMAR International Conference: Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages, University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR), an international, interdisciplinary network investigating the intersections between medieval arts and rituals, is organizing an International Conference on “Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages” that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference, which will include scholars of different career stages, will be held at the premises of the University of Bamberg between the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.<\/p>\n

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The Middle Ages are generally regarded as an era in which symbolic communication played an important and extensive role in almost all areas of life. Medieval rituals are, as Gerhard Althoff has defined them, \u201clonger sequences of actions whose processes are committed to patterns and create a performative impact; they cause what they show\u201d (Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games, 2020: 9). Rituals serve the medieval need for producing religious, legal, power-consolidating, and magical acts in symbolic ways. They can be understood, according to Hannah Vollrath, as forms of multi-sensory communication that addresses the senses and feelings of participants. In short, rituals become perceptible through the senses that render them meaningful and powerful.<\/p>\n

Medieval ritual research has so far focused on the role of rituals in the contexts of religion and power relations. It is obvious, however, that in the patriarchally organised and male dominated societies of the Middle Ages, rituals also played a significant role in the staging and performance of gender roles. Sharon T. Strocchia comes to the same conclusion when she observes \u201cthat ritual and gender offer valuable new ways to study power and systems of social relations,\u201d while at the same time noting that the interactions of gender and ritual have so far remained \u201clargely unexplored\u201d (Funerals and the Politics of Gender, 1991: 155). Taking this into account, a closer examination of ritual as a possible form of solidification and confirmation of gender roles seems worthwhile.<\/p>\n

The Speakers of all medievalist disciplines are using various textual and\/or visual sources to explore the complicated intersections of sex, body and gender through the lens of medieval ritual. The topics of interest are the following:<\/p>\n