A prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800. On the website you will find a database of the membership, family trees, edited documents, maps and analysis of the nuns’ experiences.
Who Were the Nuns?
Tag: Women
Impressae. Women Printers in Early Modern Antwerp, Leuven and Douai
Impressae. Women Printers in Early Modern Antwerp, Leuven and Douai
This project reconstructs the lives and work of women printers in Antwerp, Leuven and Douai during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, providing users with information about kinship and commercial networks, printing houses and rare books.
Books of Duchesses: Mapping Women Book Owners in Francophone Europe, 1350-1550
Books of Duchesses – Mapping Women Book Owners in Francophone Europe, 1350-1550
This project collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval and early modern laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of women book owners.
The data collected in the project has the potential to shift scholarly paradigms by challenging narratives of national literary history and uncovering the active role played by women in creating, consuming literary and material culture and in circulating texts across national, geographic, and generational borders.
Italian Women Writers
Topic: Literature
Description: A searchable online database containing bio-bibliographical information on Italian Women Writers.
