Hi fellow #histodons! Since I’m moving towards mastodon I thought I’d introduce myself properly.

I’m a cultural historian of music and books, with a particular focus on the relationships between music, worship, and identities in times of upheaval.

My current Marie Skłodowska-Curie project investigates how musical saints’ cults connected Lutherans and Catholics despite the rupture of the #Reformation.

Other research areas include #MusicPrinting, #MusicalBookHistory, #BookHistory, #CounterReformation #Ecumenicism, #CulturalHeritage, the musical lives of #Beguines, and … #CallTheMidwife (#nuntastic).

Looking forward to connecting with other @bookhistodons, @histodons, @bookstodon!

https://mariannecegillion.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/new-project-new-university-old-plainchant/

The latest volume of The Year’s Work in #Medievalism—a whopping double issue—has been published, including my #nuntastic piece on "Sister Warriors: Medievalism and Tropes of Women’s Empowerment in Netflix’s 'Warrior Nun'".

See me get to use the term "nunsploitation" in an academic paper!

https://ywim.net/

The physical version of the #nuntastic "Brides of Christ: Women and monasticism in #medieval and early modern Ireland" exists! It is available in book stores from next week and for pre-order now on the Four Courts Press website: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/brides-of-christ/

Thanks to the editors Martin, Tracy, Bronach and Colmán for their work in overseeing all aspects of its production!

The physical version of the #nuntastic "Brides of Christ: Women and monasticism in #medieval and early modern Ireland" exists! It is available in book stores from next week and for pre-order now on the Four Courts Press website: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/brides-of-christ/

Thanks to the editors Martin, Tracy, Bronach and Colmán for their work in overseeing all aspects of its production!

Out next month from @fourcourtspress, and available for pre-order now: the #nuntastic "Brides of Christ: Women and monasticism in #medieval and early modern Ireland."

"Whether as practitioners or as patrons, women found creative and dynamic ways to pursue their calling as ‘Brides of Christ’ between the fifth and the seventeenth centuries, often in the face of tremendous difficulties and challenges. Their lives of prayer and service are sometimes hard to glimpse but the combined interdisciplinary perspectives of these essays brings them into sharper focus."

https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/brides-of-christ/

This afternoon's big task: tackling the proofs of my piece, "Putting Women in Order", which will appear in the #nuntastic volume "Brides of Christ: Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland" later this year with Four Courts Press.

Unlike the habit, the story of nuns and convents in Ireland is not black and white. It’s far more complex than that. https://irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/04/17/overlooking-nuns-contribution-to-ireland-erases-women-from-our-history-yet-again/
#research #convents #Ireland #womenshistory #irishhistory #nuntastic

Parchment fragments catalogued & described in my article "Text und Textil. Die beschriebenen Pergamente in den Figurenornaten", in: Heilige Röcke. Kleider für Skulpturen in Kloster Wienhausen, ed. by Charlotte Klack-Eitzen et al., Regensburg 2013, p. 71-78
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RT @CariGluchowski
Look at this #nuntastic treasure in the State Museum Schwerin (Pl. 600, c. 1500, Abbey of the Holy Cross, Rostock)! The #Cistercian nuns used #recycled parc…
https://twitter.com/CariGluchowski/status/1647862405106417666

Revisited the astonishing passage for #Quasimodo Sunday in #nuntastic prayerbook @dombib_hi Ms. J 27 ("ora, plora, pone digitum in vulnera") & asked ChatGBT to rewrite it as spiritual. What do you think, @CariGluchowski @malu_schilling @seatofwisdomopn?
#amediting (?)

A necessary complement to #nuntastic
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RT @PatriciaStoop
All welcome #medievaltwitter #twitterstorians

https://othersisters.hypotheses.org/614
https://twitter.com/PatriciaStoop/status/1647122769451122688

An FYI for those interested in the #medieval (quasi) #nuntastic: an upcoming conference at the University of Toronto on "The Other Sister: New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800)."

See the attached flyer for details on how to register to attend via Zoom.

Off to @StMarysIffley for 2:30pm for welcoming visitors (& hiding some eggs…). Great day for showing people round the church, #nuntastic anchorage & huge yew tree. Sneak preview here (I was allowed to explain the zodiac signs on the Norman door)
https://youtu.be/0V70xgxm5YI

RT @DrCanonic
On a week when we've been listening to the music of nuns—Chiara Maria Cozzolani, Isabella Leonarda—delighted for this beauty
#nuntastic https://twitter.com/jdmccafferty/status/1643952052421181444

Thx @anjdunning for allowing me to show off the @bodleianlibs glued-in maiden for #recyclingOxford
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RT @HLaehnemann
Might be possible by putting together print snippets of glued-in maidens in Hanover and @bodleianlibs prayerbooks to identify the publication this came from! #nuntastic excitement. (HV2 p. 163, O1 fol. 141v, sigla http://medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/manuscripts/)
https://twitter.com/HLaehnemann/status/1360625339739877379

Editing photo haul of #nuntastic mss from the Ratsbücherei Lüneburg for use by @malu_schilling & @CariGluchowski & arriving at #PalmSunday instruction: meditate on the donkey! (& yes, I was struggling with the unruly parchment!). NB: not in @HSCensus!

Janet Burton & I are delighted to have our book launch for our edited collection held at the medieval parish church of All Saints, North Street in York.

There will be a short programme of speakers (see attached), books available for purchase, and cake!

Book Launch event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-medieval-women-religious-c800-c1500-tickets-576996410797

Online interest
https://forms.gle/6txLDKBAgyanuzpz5

Thank you for your continued support and we hope to see some of you there.

#medieval #womenreligious #nuntastic

Such a privilege to be back in Kloster Medingen and to discuss the #FrauenDerHanse with the Hanse network people! Here's to more #nuntastic adventures with @M_Baeumer & @CariGluchowski!

A close up reveals the #nuntastic crosses on the pointed Cistercian veil

Sneak-preview of my #nuntastic lecture on 'The Letters of the Medingen Abbesses in the Lüne Letter-Books' for #FrauenDerHanse conference at Kloster Medingen on my blog http://medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2023/03/16/the-letters-of-the-medingen-abbesses-in-the-lune-letter-books/ (full text & translation of all letters to come but still finalising English version)

Anybody else arriving 11:08 (or thereabouts…) in Bad Bevensen for the #FrauenDerHanse conference in Kloster Medingen? Listen for 📯 to meet outside the station @CariGluchowski ? #nuntastic https://www.netzwerk-hansekultur.de/über-uns/netzwerktagungen-und-workshops/medingen-2023/