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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.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Team leader, @alisonibeach.bsky.social on osteobiography! #TeamNun #medievalsky
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The women's Hospitaler monastery at Alguaire is at the centre of this fascinating project. And their teeth, bones, and hair (!) have lots of fascinating stories to tell!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
TeamNun is joining forces with "Prioresses, Lords and Princes. Spaces of Power in Medieval and Modern Catalonia," a major research project led by Prof Maria Soler Sala at the University of Barcelona combines archeology with the analysis of written texts and the study of the landscape.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#TeamNun in the Laboratory of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Barcelona -- assessing a skeletal assemblage from ongoing excavations at Santa Maria d'Alguaire.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
TeamNun on the road in Catalonia! Follow us here as we have our first look at the nuns of Santa Maria d'Alguaire in the lab and in the field.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
TeamNun on the road in Catalonia! Follow us here as we have our first look at the nuns of Santa Maria d'Alguaire in the lab and in the field.
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🤔 We also speculate on the future of such inter- and trans-disciplinary work/projects with examples from @teamnun.bsky.social @matthewcollins.bsky.social & others! This is after all a special 💯 🎂 "Speculations" Issue for @medievalacademy.bsky.social journal Speculum!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues! The wool thread that we prepared at #ucdexperimentalarchaeology is dyed, dried, and ready to go to Scotland to be tested out by TeamNun St Andrews! Madder (red/brown) and Woad (blue) thread, and Weld (yellow) and Weld + Woad (green) fleece!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As the #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continued, we dyed a hank of wool using the indigo Anita made with woad. Watching the thread turn from a blackish colour to lovely blue when the dyed wool was squeezed out & exposed to the air was magical! The smell of the boiling dyes was...interesting!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Our #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues with the spun thread removed from the spindle and placed in the dyer's madder! Dyer's madder can produce a range of colors from oranges to reds and was one of the most commonly used dyes in the Middle Ages.  @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Meanwhile, Anita began preparing the dye. We chose dyer's madder -- because this was a common source of oranges-to-reds and Anita detected this plant in ELS215's dental calculus. Anita also prepared a gorgeous rich blue from woad.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I was definitely not as chill as this woman from the Fécamp Psalter (The Hague KB, 76 F 13)...
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The next step involved holding the distaff under my left arm and pinching some of the fleece firmly away from the distaff -- all the while twirling the drop spindle to create the twist that turns the fleece from fluffy fibre into thread. I got pretty good at this with patient tutoring from Lucy!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This woman has the multitasking down! I definitely was not going to be feeding any chickens while holding on to my distaff! Image: Luttrell Psalter (BL Add. MS. 42130, f. 166v). The innocent-looking thing hanging from the distaff is a drop spindle. Things are about to get more complicated!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
After combing the fleece, we placed it on a distaff to begin the spinning process. The distaff is commonly associated with women in the Middle Ages -- it is really just a long stick with the prepared fleece tied to it. #TeamNun #UCDExperimental Archaeology
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We used wool combs created to reflect actual medieval tools -- wooded-handled with iron spikes. After aligning the fleece on the first comb, we began to use the second comb to pick up and align the long wool fibres with a circular motion of the arm. Hard work for the upper arm and wrist!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our work in the UCD Experimental Archaeology Lab began with a lovely pile of cleaned fleece from Valais Blacknose sheep (Image: CC-SA 2.0 alex.ch). #TeamNun #UCDExperimentalArchaeology
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Follow along with TeamNun Dublin and TeamNun St Andrews as we use experimental archaeology to see how wool fibre and dyer's madder ended up in ELS215's mouth. We'll go from preparing fleece to embroidering on linen -- exploring the materials and motions of ELS215's fibre artistry.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Dental calculus analysis (the identification of microparticles embedded in mineralized dental plaque!) has revealed clear evidence of ELS215's participation in cloth production. As she worked with wool, flax and, dye, fibres and plant material ended up in her mouth! Image callout 2 is dyer's madder!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Meet ELS215 -- a religious woman buried at Elstow Abbey in the Middle Ages! #TeamNun
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Excited about my first ever poster presentation!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
#TeamNun well represented at #isba11 in Torino!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What a great team, with great work done despite the heatwave!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Nice find at Dalheim! A beautiful sewing needle under the cloister🪡
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Busy Monday at Dalheim. Skeletons buried in nest rows in the northwest corner of the cloister. Patrons? So far a male and a juvenile.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
University of St Andrews - University of Bonn joint research Field School in May 2025. Uncovering the lives of Dalheim's medieval religious women.
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Getting great feedback for our #TeamNun exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio -- now until 30 May. Check out the online version here! historyinourbones.info
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here: www.historyinourbones.info #TeamNun #MedievalSky
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here: www.historyinourbones.info #TeamNun #MedievalSky
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)! This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hamburg Bible, Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, Gl.kgl.S. 4 2°, vol. 2, fol. 183r. Illustration of the parchment-maker.Farmer with Icelandic calf that is several days old.Diagram showing placement of different parts of the animal’s body.Hamburg Bible, Gl.kgl.S. 4 2°, vol. 1. Diagram showing placements of necks (green) and rumps (yellow) in the quires of the text-block.
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just finished reading this in time for a research trip to examine some exciting archival evidence relating to the historic production of parchment in Scotland.. but more on that tomorrow... (thank you to @mchapelproject.bsky.social for bringing the article to my attention!)
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We will be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Check out our website for updates: teamnun.org #Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Students: apply to participate in the Faleri Novi excavations with our £1,000 bursary and summer placement! Applications are open to all students registered at a UK university, and must be received by 28 February, 2025. For details see: www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...
Tall stone built arched gateway with an unpaved road stretching beyond it through a sunlit Mediterranean landscape. Standing in front are about thirty people in casual clothes and workboots.
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Alison Beach @alisonibeach.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Did I mention the @lindoresabbey.bsky.social Distillery cats, Friar John Claw and Vesper -- cats so cool they have their own Instagram account with over 78,000 followers (friarandvesper)? Vesper is shy, but Friar John loves to drape himself all over the archaeology and tea tables!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Come dig at Lindores Abbey this summer with @standrewshist.bsky.social and the @mafs-scot.bsky.social ! Scotland is fabulous in June-July!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
TeamNun on the road in Italy! Read here about our most recent adventures in the archives of the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella. www.teamnun.org/news/teamnun...
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Meet the women of Santa Maria della Stella | Word of Mouth
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
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Beatrice Demarchi @beademarch.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Poring over monastic admin (so many litigations!)...lovely change from *my* admin (and litigations!)! #TeamNun
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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!
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Check out what's happening on TeamNun! www.teamnun.org
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TeamNun | history and archaeology
TeamNun is a project that engages History and Archaeology to uncover the stories of medieval religious women
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#TeamNun @teamnun.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great opportunity for experience in library, field, and lab. Medieval History, Field Excavation, Bioarchaeology!
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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For those of you in the Boston area, I'll be hosting a Q&A after a special screening of the documentary film Hunt for the Oldest DNA at the MIT Museum on December 3 at 6pm. Tickets to the screening and after show are available here: mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/sel...
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John S. Mead @evoexplorer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Question / favor for the #palaeoproteomics folks out there --- I am a human evolution educator for middle & high schoolers and like to show kids the tools of paleoanthropology ---hoping to boost my understanding of #palaeoproteomics & would love to chat with some of y'all! Thanks in advance!
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