Talk: Spirituality and technological innovation in medieval Europe: the Cologne mikveh and monastic water systems by Neta Bodner and Tzafrir Barzilay

Talk

4 July 2023, 6.0o pm, Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln, Belgisches Haus, Cäcilienstraße 46, 50667 Köln

Medieval mikvahs were not only essential for the Jewish communities in Central Europe, but sometimes also technically highly sophisticated structures. The monumental shaft of the 12th-century Cologne mikveh, for example, reaches 16 m deep into the groundwater. In their evening lecture, Neta Bodner and Tzafrir Barzilay will explore similarities, differences and cross-relations between Jewish and Christian institutions. The public evening lecture takes place in the context of a scientific workshop on the medieval mikvah in Cologne.

Please register by 28 June 2023 at miqua@lvr.de.

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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.