UK, 24.-25.7.03)
Date: 4/18/03

Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe
Two Day Conference 24 - 25 July 2003
Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK

This conference is an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of
latest research on female monastic life in Europe during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. An international group of scholars
consisting of historians, literary historians, art historians and
musicologists will present their research on nuns in early modern
England, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Speakers
Jodi Bilinkoff, Colleen Baade, Kelley Harness, Helen Hills, Robert
Kendrick, Mary Laven, Amy Leonard, Elizabeth Rapley, Ulrike Strasser,
Margit Thøfner, Claire Walker, Elissa Weaver, Alison Weber, Cordula van
Wyhe

Musica Secreta will perform music composed by nuns from North Italian
convents arranged and performed according to convent performance
practice with female voices and continuo instruments.

For more information see
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/habsburg.netherlands/
or contact:
Dr Cordula van Wyhe
Speelman-Newton Fellow in Netherlandish Art
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Barton Rd CB3 9BB
Cordulastudycave.org.uk

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