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Great colleagues and conversations at the Future of Molecular Paleography workshop organized to close the
@ercb2c project. Scientists and humanists thinking together about ways to collaborate on the study of manuscripts at the lovely Fuglsang manor house and estate in southern Denmark
April 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Orsolya (Orshi) Czére (Scotland) -- #TeamNun Research Technical Professional (RTP) extraordinaire. Can't wait to get started studying the teeth and bone of medieval religious women to reveal what kind of food and drink they consumed and where they lived before becoming nuns. #TeamNun loves RTPs!
January 9, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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#TeamNun Aberdeen!
January 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Kate Britton (Scotland) -- archaeological scientist and core member of #TeamNun. Kate uses stable isotope analysis to reconstruct past diets, movements, and environments. #TeamNun loves oxygen, strontium, nitrogen, and carbon!
January 9, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Looking for a great archaeology field school experience this June? Come and break ground with us at medieval Lindores Abbey in Scotland! Earn University of St Andrews credit while studying medieval monasticism in the field!

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study-abroad...
January 3, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Eir Önnu Ólafsbur (Iceland) -- undergraduate student in archaeology at the University of Iceland. Sings while digging at Kirkjubæjarklaustur with the Fornleifarannsókn: Benediktínaklaustur á Íslandi / Benedictines in Iceland team. #TeamNun loves mentoring students!
December 17, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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Delaney Dammeyer (Iceland) -- studies water management at Icelandic monasteries, including secular and sacred uses of the natural world. Vital part of the great excavation team investigating the life of nuns at Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Yay #TeamNun Iceland!
November 27, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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Katy Beebe (United States) -- hard at work reconstructing a virtual pilgrimage landscapes filled with nuns! #TeamNun loves the digital humanities!
December 11, 2023 at 5:57 PM
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Scott Riddell (Iceland) -- soils wizard on the Fornleifarannsókn: Benedictines in Iceland team. Key member of #TeamNun Iceland -- digging at Kirkjubærklastur, the first women's monastery in Iceland! Amazing what you can learn from soil cores! #TeamNun loves paleoecology!
December 12, 2023 at 5:06 PM
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Ack --- Kirkjubærjarklaustur :-)
December 12, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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Louisa Burnham (USA) -- Prefers religious women of the heretical sort, especially in late medieval southern Europe. Definitely #TeamNun at the core.
December 12, 2023 at 9:15 PM
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CJ Jones (USA) -- studies savvy religious women in Germany who used the many dimensions of liturgy to negotiate gendered and religious structures of authority and to create and perform communal identity. #TeamNun loves the sights, sounds, and smells of liturgy!
December 12, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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Lára Janusdóttir (Iceland) -- MA student in Archaeology at \ U of Iceland and mastermind of public-facing aspects of the dig at Kirkjubæjarklaustur -- the first women's monastery in Iceland -- as part of the Benedictines in Iceland project. #TeamNun loves impact and public engagement!
December 13, 2023 at 4:29 PM
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...who has taught us so much about the sensory, physical, and affective experiences that art can suggest and provoke! Go Yale History of Art chapter of #TeamNun!
December 13, 2023 at 7:07 PM
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Workshop: Prøvetagning til Laboratorieanalyse i Arkæologi &  Palynologikursus (Field Sampling for Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology & Palynology Course)

30. til 31. Januar 2024 på Moesgaard Museum

Sponsored by IPERION-HS and the Carlsberg Foundation (ArcHives)
ArcHives - ArcHives Workshop 2024
Click here to register!
sites.google.com
December 14, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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Miriam Shadis (USA) -- framed by the volumes of charters she expertly scours for the voices of royal women (and hundreds of nuns!) in the central Middle Ages! #TeamNun loves medieval charters!
December 14, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Anne E. Lester (USA) -- whose important early-career work on Cistercian nuns has led her ever deeper into the intertwining religious and social contexts of medieval France and beyond. #TeamNun thrives at the intersection of textual and material evidence!
December 14, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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Tina Warinner (USA) -- Brilliant biomolecular archaeologist who specializes in the prehistory of human foods and the evolution of the microbiome. Founding sister of #TeamNun.
December 12, 2023 at 2:12 AM
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A PhD in Medieval History at St Andrews? I particularly welcome projects at the intersection of Monastic History and Archaeological Science -- apply by 8 December for funded studentships! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/pros...
December 1, 2023 at 11:33 AM
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Sally Mubarak (Scotland) -- PhD student in Classics at St Andrews, studying war and trauma in the Roman Republic. Assistant Director of the Andrews History & Archaeology Lab and studying osteology under the tutelage of Rosa Boano. The nuns of Elstow Abbey are nudging her ever further onto #TeamNun!
November 25, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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MAx Dyer (Scotland) -- PhD Student in Classics and Assistant Director of the St Andrews History & Archaeology Lab. Studies environmental archaeology and micro-region histories. Vital contributor to #TeamNun! Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Elstow Assemblage in the coming year!
November 25, 2023 at 1:54 PM
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Willa Stonecipher (Scotland) -- Fourth-Year Honours student in Medieval History at University of St Andrews and student in the St Andrews History & Archaeology Lab. Watches osteology videos in her spare time. Devoted to Paulina of Paulinzella. Up and coming member of #TeamNun.
November 25, 2023 at 1:51 PM
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Kirstin Uhlenbrock (Scotland) -- Intrepid wheelwoman to #TeamNun. Shows up for the driving, joins in for the history and science!
November 25, 2023 at 1:50 PM
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Dar Brooks Hedstrom (USA) -- archaeological historian and explorer of monastic landscapes populated by nuns (and monks!) in late Antique Egypt. Now exploring monastic landscapes of medieval Scotland and engaging with the work of #TeamNun!
November 25, 2023 at 1:49 PM
The Centre produced the School of History's offering for Disability History Month -- 18 November to 18 December!
November 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM