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Sarah Moran

@lc-beguines.bsky.social
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Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no. Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026). orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321

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Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wat een leuk interview met collega Jasper van der Steen over zijn mooie nieuwe boek www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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De Nassaus runnen hun dynastie al eeuwen als een familiebedrijf. ‘Voor elke generatie is de opvolging een stresstest’
Geschiedenis: De geschiedschrijving over vorstenhuizen gaat vaak over staatsvorming. Jasper van der Steen besloot het anders aan te pakken. Hij keek naar de Nassaus als een familiebedrijf.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Claudia del Bufalo Identified as Painter in Murder Trial, Not Noblewoman by Sarah Mitchell for USA Art News usaartnews.com/news/claudia... #womenartists #artherstory
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Claudia del Bufalo Identified as Painter in Murder Trial, Not Noblewoman
New research uncovers 17th-century painter Claudia del Bufalo's life as a poet and impresario, implicated in a murder trial in Rome.
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Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Morgen (zaterdag) is het recent ontdekte Leidse Maria kazuifel weer te zien 🤩 Geborduurd in de eerste helft van de 17de eeuw door de maagden in de Hoek te Haarlem🪡 Van 13.30 tot 16.30 uur in de Hartebrugkerk in Leiden 💒 Vandaag in het @leidschdagblad.nl 🗞️
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Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just dropped *today*: Early Modern Women and Religious Innovation, eds Katherine O’Donnell &Francesco Quatrini (Bloomsbury), w/my chapter "Reform and Resistance in the 1540s, or How the Diest Beguines Tried to Get Rid of Their Priest". Preview on GoogleBooks:https://tinyurl.com/r9d59y74 #nuntastic
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A few scenes from the #Lier Beguinage, with church and houses built mostly in the 17th century. Unlike nuns, Beguines had to pay for their own housing, which was key to the Beguinages' remarkabe financially stability. Want to know more? Check out my book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PhD-positie voor neerlandicus, historicus of theoloog, voor meer informatie: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
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Doctoraatsbursaal in de historische Nederlandse letterkunde | Universiteit Antwerpen
YUFE vacature
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sat 3 Oct 2026 at Christ Church Library, Oxford Univ - Women and Their Books: Women as Book Producers and Owners in Early Modern England and Scotland A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...
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Women and Their Books in Early Modern England and Scotland
A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Splendour from the Black Sea! This Hellenistic diadem transforms gold and gemstones into a miniature mythological scene: a Heracles knot at its centre, surmounted by Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and framed by sea monsters. Dating 250–150 BC, made from... 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology
A gold diadem in a museum display: A knot forms the central motif, made of a translucent red stone and gold. Above it rises the goddess of victory Nike, flanked by two sea monsters. Two rigid gold bands are attached at the sides over hinges. Tassel-shaped pendants hang down from the diadem.
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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Superb exhibition of medieval manuscript fragments in the architecturally stunning National and University Library of Ljubljana. Added bonus: you get to choose and take away a little fragment as a memento 🙂
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A little Sunday afternoon beguine research for an exciting good cause! More soon ... Antwerp, Henrik Conscience Heritage Library, F 84072:1. #BookHistory #EarlyModern #GirlsGotPolyphony #MusicalBookHistoryMystery #BringBackBeguinages
A page from a 17th century songbook. There are five lines of mensural (rhythmic) notation and two stanzas of text. The book is held by the Henrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp. Shelfmark F 84072:1.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gate of the #Lier Beguinage, 17th c, with a statue of St. Begga dated to 1777. Beguinage gates stood open from around dawn to dusk, when the "schavanie" bell was rung to tell all men and boys to leave before the gates were locked. Want to know more? Check out my new book: h1.nu/1uO-T
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pulpit at the Mechelen Grand Beguinage church, early to mid‑eighteenth century, attr. to Theodoor Verhaegen, with images of Catherine, Alexis, Begga, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and four religious allegories for the base. Want to know more about Beguines? Check out my new book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pulpit of the Small Beguinage of Ghent, executed by Jan Baptist van Helderbergh, 1731–1732, w/ scenes of the Woman at the Well, Mary Magdalene Washing Christ’s Feet, Parable of the Good Shepherd, Christ Calming the Storm, & Jesus and Zacchaeus, & base figures of Faith, Divine Love, & Hope.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Anonymous 17th-c painting of a Beguine in an enclosed garden, Mechelen cityscape in the background. Anyone know where this work might be? It's featured in the Hooglied catalog (1994) but I haven't been able to trace it. #ArtHistory #FlemishArt #ArtCollecting
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Theodoor van Loon's beautiful Trinity/Holy Family, probably made for the Brussels Vineyard Beguinage church. Another version was installed on an altar at the Leuven Beguinage church but is now untraced. Find out more in my new book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A grand and gorgeous painting by Theodoor Boeyermans in the Leuven Beguinage church: St. Begga of Andenne in Adoration of the consecrated host; in the background, Ansegisel discovers the baby Goudin in the background. Want to know more? Unconventual Women is available for pre-order! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hearty congratulations to Rebecca Howard on the publication of her new book! Portraiture and Mnemonics in the Renaissance Modes of Connecting and Remembering in Central and Northern Italy www.routledge.com/Portraiture-... The study is published in the series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.
The front cover of a book; the featured image is Bronzino’s Portrait of Ugolino Martelli.
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference poster for the Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds featuring an image of birds and an image of a nest in a tree as well as the JCB logo and text.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
To celebrate her 1648 election as grand mistress of Ghent's St. Elisabeth Beguinage, Maria vanden Haute commissioned a monstrance w/her patron, Mary, at the center. She died in 1675 and was buried in the beige robe of a Dominican tertiary. Want to know more? Check out my new book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My new book, Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries: 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages, is officially available for pre-order from Routledge! An absolute must for your university library, if you ask me 😉. www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages
This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the…
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New discovery: Roman mosaic unearthed at ancient city of Tralleis in western Türkiye. www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/2... 🏺
A photo of the mosaic during the excavation, depicting a hippocampus, sea creature with the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
Two person are cleaning the mosaic with brushes.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Christopher Leutbrewer’s Gulde biecht‑konste was pub'd in many editions in the Southern Low Countries from 1646 into the 18th c. Over time the penitents in the title print change: males & females on different sides (as instructed by Borromeo in 1577) til the 1697 print, where sexes are mixed.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pulpit at the #Lier Beguine church, by Ludovicus Willemssens, c.1670. The base is formed by female saints: Begga, Margaret, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, w/ symbols of the Evangelists bracing the rostrum. Find out more in my book! h1.nu/1uO-T
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
CFP: RSA 2027: Women, Religion, and Mobilities in the Low Countries and Beyond Deadline: July 15
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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Now available! Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38) #earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...
View of book covers for two-volume set of Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod A. Marder and published by Hirmer on behalf of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Volume 1 (visible) has ink and red chalk drawing for the crowning feature of the Baldacchino in St. Peter's.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Portrait of Hoogstraten Beguine Maria Theresa Joris, d. 1907. Photograph made in 1900 or later. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my #nuntastic new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's some horse.
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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...
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Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age
Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a multi-...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hoogstraten Beguine Johanna Van den Wijngaart with her family in 1949. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The five Hermans siblings from Antwerp, with the three sisters all joining religious communities. L-R: Maria (Ursuline of Heikruis), Jef, Bertha (Hospital sister), Flor, and Ludovica (Hoogstraten Beguine). Early 20th c/before 1939.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The new book "Anne Vallayer-Coster," by Kelsey Brosnan, is co-published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Publications - Available in UK/ROW from Lund Humphries: www.lundhumphries.com/products/ann... Available in N. America from Getty Publications: shop.getty.edu/products/ann...
A front cover visual of a book with the title in orange text down the right side. The featured image is an 18th-century still-life painting of seashells on a stone ledge.A photo of the front cover (and an oblique view of the spine) of a book. The title is in black text within a white box in the bottom quarter. The featured image is an 18th-century still-life painting of seashells on a stone ledge.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Two #nuntastic Beguines of Hoogstraten, early 20th c (before 1939).
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Seven Hoogstraten Beguines with a priest in 1931. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
DeGruyter / Brill welcomes book proposals to this new series of peer-reviewed books - Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University brill.com/page/forthco... Pls contact me with any questions - by DM or at this email: Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com
A book series announcement in the guise of a book front cover visual. The series name, "Early Modern Visual & Material Cultures," is reversed out of a translucent purple panel across a detail of an early modern painting.
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Anyone in London on 22 July, why not join us @treadwells-books.bsky.social for a soirée about 'performing magnetism'? www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/mag...
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Magnetism in the 19th Century – Talk & Soirée | Treadwells
A panel of scholars explore the cultural power of magnetism across entertainment, medicine and magic. Drinks follow.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Profession announcement for Beguine Maria Timmermans of Hoogstraten, 5 October 1780. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hoogstraten Beguine Johanna van den Wijngaard in her back garden, mid-20th century. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Maria van Loenhout, before and after her profession at the Hoogstraten Beguinage in c.1921. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This morning I'm giving a paper called "Patronage, Family Networks, and the Four Evangelists Confessionals at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen" at the #nuntastic HWRBI conference. It's going to be very fun! #FlemishArt #ArtHistory historyofwomenreligious.org/wp-content/u...
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
On June 2, 1690, the grand mistress of the Leuven Ten Hove Beguinage contracted with Peeter Goltfuss to build them a new organ for 1150 guilders. The chronogram on the case references the hymn Jesu, Dulcis Jesu memoria, believed to be by Bernard of Clairvaux. Find out more: tinyurl.com/49dbuz4w
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Heading to London tomorrow for the #nuntastic HWRBI conference, talk about Beguines, and pop by the Zurbaran and Wautier exhibitions. Very excited about all of this. historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Three Beguines of Hoogstraten, first half of the 20th century. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguinages in my new book! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Funerary urn with the Mexica god Tezcatlipoca. It was manufactured in a region near Toluca, Estado de Mexico, 1400–1521CE. Son of the creator couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, Tezcatlipoca was one of the most venerated gods in the Mexica pantheon. He embodied the duality between life and death.
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Beguine profession at the Mechelen Grand Beguinage, early twentieth century, and a view inside the church today. The new Beguine wears a white veil & a crown. Find out more about the Low Countries Beguines in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Two of the last Beguines of the Mechelen Grand Beguinage, which closed in 1955. Find out more about these fascinating communities in my new book: www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Proofs have arrived! I'm both absolutely thrilled and gripped with typo-phobia. In any case, the book is almost real! #NUNTASTIC
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Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Did you know that #EarlyModern #LowCountries women owned property, & their parents never paid dowries? Check out my *free* article, "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture: Gender, Property Rights, & the Financing of the Flemish Baroque." emlc-journal.org/article/view...
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