The project FEMIGLA researchers – full professor Sanja Cvetnić, PhD (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb) and Ana Šimić, PhD (Old Church Slavonic Institute) – delivered lectures on women on miniatures and in texts of Glagolitic books on Wednesday, March 4, at the opening of the exhibition Showing their true colours: female figures on miniatures in the medieval Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts in the Vukovar City Library.

In the lecture titled Role models and patronesses, but showing their true colours? professor Sanja Cvetnić, PhD, discussed the materials and methods required for creating miniatures in medieval codices. Following that, she focused on the women depicted on miniatures in the Croatian Glagolitic Second Vrbnik Missal (1462), a work by the Master of the Pico Pliny.

In the lecture titled Holy and Unholy Women in Glagolitic Texts Ana Šimić, PhD, discussed the unholy female characters in the stories about a major holy character in Glagolitic texts. She particularly drew attention to female demons, murderesses, adulteresses, seductresses, and violent women in Glagolitic literature.