German Historical Institute London
Join us on Tuesday, 24 March, at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL Spring Series! Alison Beach (University of St Andrews) will speak about 'The Religious Women of Medieval Westphalia: From Manuscript to Microscope'. The lecture will take place at Pushkin House (with Zoom option).
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Alison Beach's lecture will open with an overview of the diverse forms of religious life for women in Westphalia from the early Middle Ages to the thirteenth century before turning to an in-depth discussion of three diverse religious communities: Meschede (a community of secular canonesses),
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Dalheim (a house of Augustinian canonesses), and Gehrden (a women’s monastery following the Rule of St Benedict). It will highlight the limitations of reading the history of medieval women through surviving texts alone, and the value of research at the intersection of history, archaeology, and
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