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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
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.
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
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.
Excited about my first ever poster presentation!
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Excited about my first ever poster presentation!
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
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!
What a great team, with great work done despite the heatwave!
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What a great team, with great work done despite the heatwave!
Nice find at Dalheim! A beautiful sewing needle under the cloister🪡
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Nice find at Dalheim! A beautiful sewing needle under the cloister🪡
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
Busy Monday at Dalheim. Skeletons buried in nest rows in the northwest corner of the cloister. Patrons? So far a male and a juvenile.
Few documents survive to tell us about the development and the everyday life of this monastery, but archaeology is revealing so much about the lives of the women (and men) who lived there in the Middle Ages.
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Few documents survive to tell us about the development and the everyday life of this monastery, but archaeology is revealing so much about the lives of the women (and men) who lived there in the Middle Ages.
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
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.
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
University of St Andrews - University of Bonn joint research Field School in May 2025. Uncovering the lives of Dalheim's medieval religious women.
#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
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
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
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!
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
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
Carolin Gluchowski (Germany) -- studies reform and reformation in 16th-century women's monasteries in Germany. Key player in an innovative team exploring the impact of religious change on the lives of nuns in a stunning graphic novel, Breaking Walls! #TeamNun loves innovative approaches to impact!
December 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Carolin Gluchowski (Germany) -- studies reform and reformation in 16th-century women's monasteries in Germany. Key player in an innovative team exploring the impact of religious change on the lives of nuns in a stunning graphic novel, Breaking Walls! #TeamNun loves innovative approaches to impact!
Sister Jacoba Zöll (Germany) -- researching constructions of gender and sanctity in late Medieval Germany. Absolutely Indispensable Organizer of workshops and conferences for AGFEM. #TeamNun loves highly learned and efficient religious women, past and present!
February 15, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Sister Jacoba Zöll (Germany) -- researching constructions of gender and sanctity in late Medieval Germany. Absolutely Indispensable Organizer of workshops and conferences for AGFEM. #TeamNun loves highly learned and efficient religious women, past and present!
Orsolya Czére - Research Technical Professional whose work in the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen focuses on paleoenvironment and archaeology.
February 13, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Orsolya Czére - Research Technical Professional whose work in the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen focuses on paleoenvironment and archaeology.
Sherri Franks Johnson (USA) -- whose skilled archival work reveals the ways in which women's religious communities in late medieval Bologna successfully negotiated very different places in city, order, and wider church.
January 31, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Sherri Franks Johnson (USA) -- whose skilled archival work reveals the ways in which women's religious communities in late medieval Bologna successfully negotiated very different places in city, order, and wider church.
Sally Sara S. Poor (USA) -- outstanding medievalist whose work on thirteenth-century religious woman and mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg took on received notions of female authorship and made us question time-honored assumptions of women's exclusion from the canon of European literature.
January 31, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Sally Sara S. Poor (USA) -- outstanding medievalist whose work on thirteenth-century religious woman and mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg took on received notions of female authorship and made us question time-honored assumptions of women's exclusion from the canon of European literature.
Claudia Sutter (Switzerland) -- promising early career historian whose research focuses on the (surprisingly) brisk economic exchange between cloistered women's religious communities in the Late Middle Ages and the outside world. #TeamNun loves enterprising Dominican women!
January 31, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Claudia Sutter (Switzerland) -- promising early career historian whose research focuses on the (surprisingly) brisk economic exchange between cloistered women's religious communities in the Late Middle Ages and the outside world. #TeamNun loves enterprising Dominican women!
Thank you to the UKRI for their generous support of "Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work"! Exciting things to come, with Anita Radini, Beatrice Demarchi, Rosa Boano, Kate Britton, and Orshi Orsolya! First stop: Elstow Abbey!
January 11, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Thank you to the UKRI for their generous support of "Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work"! Exciting things to come, with Anita Radini, Beatrice Demarchi, Rosa Boano, Kate Britton, and Orshi Orsolya! First stop: Elstow Abbey!
Thrilled to announce that #TeamNun has been awarded an AHRC Standard Research Grant for a five-year study of medieval religious women combining historical research and archaeological science!
January 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Thrilled to announce that #TeamNun has been awarded an AHRC Standard Research Grant for a five-year study of medieval religious women combining historical research and archaeological science!
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