Conferences by Marlena Whiting
The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organ... more The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organized jointly with the DFG Project 'Procopius and the Language of Buildings' (University of Mainz, University of Halle)
We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-mod... more We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-modern period. The aim of the conference is to explore the social dimensions of women's religiously motivated travel ("pilgrimage") by taking a cross-cultural and diachronic perspective on the phenomenon. Researchers from different disciplines, such as historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and specialists in religious, Near Eastern and gender studies, are warmly welcome to submit their abstracts by January 12, 2018.
Issue 2 by Marlena Whiting
Kleos Issue 2, 2019
This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Genderi... more This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Gendering Sacred Space: Female Networks, Patronage, and Ritual Experience in Early Christian Pilgrimage”, to encourage scholars working on the field of women and pilgrimage in different periods and different cultures to explore and share some of the methodological challenges and insights that their particular area of expertise has yielded. The conference was co-organized by Ms Emilia Salerno (MA), a specialist in gender and the Roman cult of Magna Mater.
Doctoral Dissertation by Marlena Whiting
Books by Marlena Whiting
by Tyler Franconi, Brendan Haug, Philippe LEVEAU, Nicholas Purcell, Marlena Whiting, Andrew Wilson, hugo delile, Cécile Vittori, Ilaria Mazzini, Matthieu Giaime, and Brian Campbell
Papers by Marlena Whiting
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, Impact of the Ancient City Series 2, edited by Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Oxbow) open-access, 2022
This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landsc... more This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landscape of Petra were regarded and remembered in the transition from Nabataean/Roman to Christian society, by examining the pagan, Christian, and civic buildings in the centre of the ancient city, and the suburban pilgrimage shrine of Jabal Harun.
Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean San... more Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Monastery (Helsinki, 2016), 108-13.
What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgr... more What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East reveal about women and pilgrimage?
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/510
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012
Talks by Marlena Whiting
by Robert Wiśniewski, The Cult of Saints, Maria Lidova, Efthymios Rizos, Adam Łajtar, Konstantin Klein, Aaltje Hidding, Olga Špehar, Anna Lampadaridi, András Handl, Julia Doroszewska, and Marlena Whiting Full programme now available:
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Conferences by Marlena Whiting
Issue 2 by Marlena Whiting
Doctoral Dissertation by Marlena Whiting
Books by Marlena Whiting
Papers by Marlena Whiting
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380
Talks by Marlena Whiting
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380