Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR)
We are an international, cross-disciplinary network dedicated to the study of medieval arts and rituals.
NetMAR brings together scholars, researchers, and students from different countries, backgrounds, institutions, and disciplines, all of whom are committed to academic excellence and to widening participation.
The network is made up of three major partners:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No 951875.
Latest Blogs, News & Announcements
June 30, 2021
By Christos Hadjiyiannis
In her latest work, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović stars as Maria Callas. The work opened at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich on 3 September 2020. In his review of the opera, Dr Christos Hadjiyiannis, Scientific Project Manager of NetMAR, suggests that the opera borrows much from late antique and early medieval texts that thematise the suffering of Christian women.June 15, 2021
The international workshop, Mothers in the Time of the Church Fathers: Maternal Thought and Maternal Practice between Normative Representations and Individual Transgressions, which will be held in Verona, Italy on 17-18 February (dates tbc), is now inviting proposals for papers interested in the different ways in which religion, through the words of mainly male authorities, has dictated the female perception of the role of mother and affected the daily life of mothers.
June 15, 2021
24-25 June 2021. A two-day conference on the Palaiologan Romance will take place on 24-25 June online, to which everyone is welcome to register and attend. The conference is taking place within the framework of the research programme The World of the Palaiologan Romance: Representations of Self and Society in the Greek Narrative works of the Late Medieval period (thirteenth – fifteenth centuries): A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identity, Otherness, Gender and Ideology housed at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean and funded by the H.F.R.I. // G.S.R.I.
May 29, 2021
By Lars Boje Mortensen
The NetMAR project is seeking to better understand and promote local heritage by bridging the disciplines of art history, literature, musicology, history and more – all under the lense of ritual. NetMAR takes place just as we are seeing a significant surge, and new trends, in the global discourse of heritage.Last Updated on July 17, 2023