Podcasts Culture Geheugenissen Dark Age Nunneries. The secret lives of medieval nuns.

Dark Age Nunneries. The secret lives of medieval nuns.

Published: June 29, 2018, 11:44 a.m.

b'Portly matrons with no import to society. Such was the perception of women religious not only to their medieval contemporaries, but also to many generations of historians. Prof. Steven Vanderputten shows otherwise. His research into female monasticism during the \\u2018Dark Ages\\u2019 between 800 and 1050 unveils a picture of creative and resilient communities of women who managed to reinvent themselves in the face of oppression.'