Izv. prof. dr. sc. Saša Potočnjak (Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci), članica projektnoga tima, sudjelovala je na konferenciji Cantieri dell’agiografia (VIII edizione), koja se održala u Rimu od 21. do 23. siječnja 2025. godine u organizaciji talijanskoga društva AISSCA (L’Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia).
Izlaganje o reprezentaciji nasilja nad sveticama mučenicama te o različitim nasilnim praksama nad ženskim tijelom zastupljenim u hrvatskoglagoljskim rukopisima održala je na talijanskom jeziku pod naslovom Il femminicidio della martire: »La schiavitù e il tormento la trovarono imbattuta« u sklopu panela Martyrdom of a Female Saint: Femicide in Image, Text and Sacral Remains (RiMah).
Uz izlaganje na konferenciji u dvorani talijanskoga povijesnoga instituta za srednji vijek (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, Piazza dell’Orologio, 4 – Roma) izv. prof. dr. sc. Potočnjak je pred stručnjacima i ostalim sudionicima znanstvenih panela ujedno i javno predstavila projekt FEMIGLA.
Sažetak je njezina izlaganja na engleskom jeziku:
The femicide of the martyr: »Bondage and torment found her undefeated«
They are images of violence against women in manuscripts and visual sources, images of individual violence, collective violence, as well as violence directed against oneself. Motifs of gouging out the eyes, cutting hands, pulling out the entrails with iron hooks, starvation, or whipping are used. Such violence is rhetorical (e.g., poena sensus in literary sources), legal (e.g., in statutes and notarial documents), or ritual (e.g., Iudicum Dei). This paper aims to analyse the social practice of torturing and venerating the bodies of female saints, which is considered a necessary hagiographic procedure for their later beatification. The paper will mainly focus on medieval and early modern Glagolitic sources about female martyrs. Depicting the process of how a mortal body could become a saintly body reveals a common ritual practice in hagiography that is considered “necessary” violence.
