Lecture in Cres on women in the Glagolitic manuscripts of the island of Cres – Women and the Feminine in Mediaeval and Early Modern Glagolitic Culture

Dr. Saša Potočnjak (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka), a member of the FEMIGLA project team, gave a public lecture entitled Remember the women in the Glagolitic manuscripts of the island of Cres (Croatian: Spomeni se žene u glagoljskim rukopisima otoka Cresa) on 15 October 2026 in the town of Cres, on the Croatian island of Cres.

In her lecture, she presented the results of her archival research on the Glagolitic heritage of the island of Cres, particularly the holdings of the archives of the Franciscan Third Order Monastery of St. Jerome in Martinšćica. From contracts and legal documents to income and expenditure registers and parish registers, various manuscripts preserve traces of women’s lives, sometimes even recording their names.

Among other things, she emphasized that even women briefly mentioned in the margins of manuscripts can shed light on the lives of individuals and communities in the past.