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Recovering the stories of medieval and early modern religious women using all available methods from science and the humanities. #TeamNun projects integrate research from library to lab.
Look closely at the bottom of the Rupertsberg Antependium and you will see ten praying nuns. These may have been the artists who created this altacloth at Eibingen. All are named and embroidered right into the centre of the liturgical action -- a sacred space from which they were otherwise excluded.
September 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Did you know that medieval religious women were among the most skilled artists of the Middle Ages? Nuns at the abbey of Eibingen in Germany worked together in the early years of the thirteenth century to create a richly embroidered cloth of purple/red silk to decorate the front of a church altar.
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Excited about my first ever poster presentation!
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#TeamNun well represented at #isba11 in Torino!
August 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Wolfram Wintzer-Essling (Germany) - specialist in medieval archaeology for LWL-Archäologie für Deutschland. Driving force behind the research excavations at the women's monastery at Dalheim. #TeamNun loves archaeologists who uncover medieval women's religious communities!
August 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
What a great team, with great work done despite the heatwave!
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Nice find at Dalheim! A beautiful sewing needle under the cloister🪡
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Busy Monday at Dalheim. Skeletons buried in nest rows in the northwest corner of the cloister. Patrons? So far a male and a juvenile.
August 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Kloster Dalheim is a lesser-know religious community in Westfalen, German (near Paderborn) that emerged in the twelfth century. From the twelfth to the fourteenth century, Dalheim was a female monastic community.
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
University of St Andrews - University of Bonn joint research Field School in May 2025. Uncovering the lives of Dalheim's medieval religious women.
August 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Getting great feedback for our #TeamNun exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio -- now until 30 May. Check out the online version here!

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April 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here:
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April 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here:
www.historyinourbones.info
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April 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)!

This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Just finished reading this in time for a research trip to examine some exciting archival evidence relating to the historic production of parchment in Scotland.. but more on that tomorrow... (thank you to @mchapelproject.bsky.social for bringing the article to my attention!)
🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)!

This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We will be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Check out our website for updates: teamnun.org
#Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
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March 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Students: apply to participate in the Faleri Novi excavations with our £1,000 bursary and summer placement!

Applications are open to all students registered at a UK university, and must be received by 28 February, 2025. For details see:

www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Did I mention the @lindoresabbey.bsky.social Distillery cats, Friar John Claw and Vesper -- cats so cool they have their own Instagram account with over 78,000 followers (friarandvesper)? Vesper is shy, but Friar John loves to drape himself all over the archaeology and tea tables!
January 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Come dig at Lindores Abbey this summer with @standrewshist.bsky.social and the @mafs-scot.bsky.social ! Scotland is fabulous in June-July!
Join us for the 2025 Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey! History, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Heritage Management! Applications are open until 17 March but admissions are rolling and we are filling quickly! Links below for applications and requests for one-on-one information chats!
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
TeamNun on the road in Italy! Read here about our most recent adventures in the archives of the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella.
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Meet the women of Santa Maria della Stella | Word of Mouth
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January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Poring over monastic admin (so many litigations!)...lovely change from *my* admin (and litigations!)! #TeamNun
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Eleanor (Nora) Farber (Scotland) -- Osteologist and Archaeological Scientist. Newest member of the TeamNun AHRC/UKRI Word of Mouth Project, joining and elevating the level of the St Andrews Lab in January. #TeamNun loves Nora!
December 6, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Sara Charles (UK) -- Book historian & meticulous recreator of the materials & techniques of manuscript production in the Middle Ages. Explores the experiences of scribes & illuminators by immersing herself in the "smells, textures, and sounds," of the workshop. @saracharles.bsky.social #medievalsky
December 6, 2024 at 10:44 AM