Steve Medema (USA) -- Influential historian of economic thought whose research focuses on the twentieth century, but whose interests stretch back to Ancient Greece and the Middle Ages! #TeamNun loves our allied supporters!

Derek Hall (Scotland) -- superstar archaeologist leading the dig at Lindores Abbey Distillery for Mafs Scotland. Some day he will find Kimm Curran and me some Scottish nuns! #TeamNun loves monks too!

Erin Redfern (USA) -- award-winning poet whose brilliant poem, "The Artist" -- inspired by hearing the story of the "lapis lazuli nun" on NPR -- was runner-up for the 2020 James Hearst Poetry Prize. #TeamNun loves engaging with creative writers!

St Andrews ME4757 -- Monks & Nuns, Saints & Bishops: Germany in the High Middle Ages (Scotland) -- you get a class like this once in a career if you are lucky. Hardworking, smart, and creative. It was such fun to introduce them to medieval Germany.

Great colleagues and conversations at the Future of Molecular Paleography workshop organized to close the @ercb2c project. Scientists and humanists thinking together about ways to collaborate on the study of manuscripts at the lovely Fuglsang manor house and estate in southern Denmark

This week in Exciting New Books That Have Arrived #medievalsky

I've made some updates to my prosopographical (group biography) database of #medieval#Premonstratensian#MedievalSky 🗃️

The Sisters of Prémontré: A Prosopographical Database

That time my tweet got quoted in a New Republic article 🙂 This is why I'm working so hard to pitch more public-facing pieces about premodern women. We've to to change the narrative. And, as ever, huge shout-out to @alisonibeach.bsky.socialnewrepublic.com/article/1528...

What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth?

How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama

So much to be learned about the lives of individuals underrepresented in the textual record: children, the poor, and of course (religious) women.

Thank you so much for the kind shout out, @teamnun.bsky.social!

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Liz Lehfeldt (USA) -- historian of religious women in late medieval and Early Modern Spain and groundbreaking challenger of the notion that cloistered women were isolated from the realities of the world around them.