Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
@lc-beguines.bsky.social
Historian of early modern #4B Catholic women, especially their patronage of art & architecture. Mostly Southern Low Countries. #nuntastic
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
Developmental scholarly editing: www.SJMoranEditing.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
Developmental scholarly editing: www.SJMoranEditing.com
Pinned
My article "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture" out now in the new special issue of the Early Modern Low Countries journal. Issue is on women, both North & South LC. Check out the other authors' pieces too!
#ArtHistory
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
emlc-journal.org/article/view...
#ArtHistory
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
emlc-journal.org/article/view...
Tomorrow, Feb 11!
Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina
17:00 CET
🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz
Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina
17:00 CET
🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Tomorrow, Feb 11!
Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina
17:00 CET
🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz
Online seminar "Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve by Dario Capelli (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)", Elisa Ramazzina
17:00 CET
🔗Zoom link: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
"As AI transforms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
www.aaup.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"As AI transforms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."
Very excited about this new edited volume from @Brepols!
"Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
"Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Brepols - «Sicut in caelo»
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of…
www.brepols.net
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Very excited about this new edited volume from @Brepols!
"Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
"Sicut in caelo": Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
Eds. Galliano Ciliberti, Thomas Neal
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
🧳 🇮🇹 We are awarding travel grants for early-career researchers funded by the Ursula Nilgen Hertziana Foundation for stays in Italy for projects on medieval art.
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
🔗 More: www.biblhertz.it/3771232/2602...
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
🔗 More: www.biblhertz.it/3771232/2602...
February 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM
🧳 🇮🇹 We are awarding travel grants for early-career researchers funded by the Ursula Nilgen Hertziana Foundation for stays in Italy for projects on medieval art.
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
🔗 More: www.biblhertz.it/3771232/2602...
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
🔗 More: www.biblhertz.it/3771232/2602...
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Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe II: Habsburg Networks, 1530–1640
This two-session panel investigates how Catholic women of the Spanish and Hapsburg ruling class interrogated patriarchal conceptions of sovereignty by imagining, embodying, and enacting alternative…
rsa.confex.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
CFP: The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2026-2027
This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA.
Deadline 15 April.
www.masshist.org/seminars/his...
This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA.
Deadline 15 April.
www.masshist.org/seminars/his...
Massachusetts Historical Society: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN, GENDER, & SEXUALITY SEMINAR
Visit Overview
www.masshist.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
CFP: The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society 2026-2027
This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA.
Deadline 15 April.
www.masshist.org/seminars/his...
This Seminar series involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress. Focus on history of women in the USA.
Deadline 15 April.
www.masshist.org/seminars/his...
Deadline Approaching!
CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries)
University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026
Partial funding available
Deadline 2 Feb
www.unil.ch/news/1765791...
CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries)
University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026
Partial funding available
Deadline 2 Feb
www.unil.ch/news/1765791...
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Deadline Approaching!
CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries)
University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026
Partial funding available
Deadline 2 Feb
www.unil.ch/news/1765791...
CFP: Conference, In Two Voices: The Patron Couple in the Late Middle Ages (14th–16th Centuries)
University of Lausanne, 19-20 Oct 2026
Partial funding available
Deadline 2 Feb
www.unil.ch/news/1765791...
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
What Caused the Viking Age?
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 01/27/2026 · 1h 10m
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January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
CFP!
Special issue of the journal Religions
"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)
Special issue of the journal Religions
"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)
www.mdpi.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
CFP!
Special issue of the journal Religions
"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)
Special issue of the journal Religions
"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)
CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Yay! Just got my latest academic publication in hand. An annotated transcript of a historical poem about events at Melrose in 1682 plus an accompanying essay. So very many Dundee University linked historians in this one volume. #skystorians
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Yay! Just got my latest academic publication in hand. An annotated transcript of a historical poem about events at Melrose in 1682 plus an accompanying essay. So very many Dundee University linked historians in this one volume. #skystorians
Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe II: Habsburg Networks, 1530–1640
This two-session panel investigates how Catholic women of the Spanish and Hapsburg ruling class interrogated patriarchal conceptions of sovereignty by imagining, embodying, and enacting alternative…
rsa.confex.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Hey #RenSA26 conference peeps! Maria Prendergast & I have a 2-session panel "Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe."
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
*Thursday morning
*I'm talking about Isabella Clara Eugenia
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...
Hope to see you!
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
This is a great conference. Please circulate!
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
CfP📢The History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland Annual Conference
📆 11-12 June 2026 |🌍Queen Mary University (London)
⏰Deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
#HistoryofWomen #ReligiousHistory #CFP #EarlyModern
📆 11-12 June 2026 |🌍Queen Mary University (London)
⏰Deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
#HistoryofWomen #ReligiousHistory #CFP #EarlyModern
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 AM
This is a great conference. Please circulate!
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
Whitekirk and the Great Michael
One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…
vanishedcomforts.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
January 23, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Art Journal
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Divine Visions: A Global Exploration of Devotional Art and Iconography, c. 1200–1700
Deadline March 1.
Link for submissions:
Https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/04HI99RN7A
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Park at Mariemont | AGENART
AGENARTPieza del mes: noviembre 2025Autora invitada: Sarah Moran Cómo citar este artículo/How to cite this article: Sarah Moran, "The Infanta Isabel Clara
agenart.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Join us on Friday, January 30 at 5 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library.
Registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/HpP6WVdspBpJ....
Details at jcblibrary.org/events.
Registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/HpP6WVdspBpJ....
Details at jcblibrary.org/events.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Join us on Friday, January 30 at 5 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library.
Registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/HpP6WVdspBpJ....
Details at jcblibrary.org/events.
Registration is required. Please register at forms.gle/HpP6WVdspBpJ....
Details at jcblibrary.org/events.
This is a great conference. Please circulate!
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
CfP📢The History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland Annual Conference
📆 11-12 June 2026 |🌍Queen Mary University (London)
⏰Deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
#HistoryofWomen #ReligiousHistory #CFP #EarlyModern
📆 11-12 June 2026 |🌍Queen Mary University (London)
⏰Deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
#HistoryofWomen #ReligiousHistory #CFP #EarlyModern
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 AM
This is a great conference. Please circulate!
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
I'll be there with bells on 😁😇
In 1654-55 a visitation was conducted at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. Dozens of Beguines were interviewed. The biggest complaint: too many (boarding and day school) children at the Beguinage! They made noise and filled up the church so that some Beguines couldn't attend services.
January 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
In 1654-55 a visitation was conducted at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. Dozens of Beguines were interviewed. The biggest complaint: too many (boarding and day school) children at the Beguinage! They made noise and filled up the church so that some Beguines couldn't attend services.
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS
In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
In 1694, the Dowager Marquise of Deynse, Marie-Alberte de Gand, founded a lace-making school at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. She outlined that the teacher of the school should choose "the most capable and virtuous girls" for admission.
January 21, 2026 at 11:24 AM
In 1694, the Dowager Marquise of Deynse, Marie-Alberte de Gand, founded a lace-making school at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. She outlined that the teacher of the school should choose "the most capable and virtuous girls" for admission.
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
Squirrels found in ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,’ originally issued in 30 parts from 1845-1848. The illustrations were drawn from nature by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The plates were printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia.
#animalart
#animalart
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Squirrels found in ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,’ originally issued in 30 parts from 1845-1848. The illustrations were drawn from nature by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhouse Audubon. The plates were printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia.
#animalart
#animalart
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
New Year, new book from the IMEMS Press! 📖 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
Chelsea Reutke's 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' reconstructs the various networks that sustained the production and circulation of Catholic texts.
📲Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
Reposted by Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!
adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!
adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...