Drawing of 7 migrating Poor Clare nuns in a wagon, one being sick over the side. Inspired by the Chronicle of Rouen (which includes the letter from the first Abbess, Mary Taylor, back to the mother house in Gravelines which is copied into the chronicle and describes their difficult journey)!
Another image to represent the migrating Poor Clare - a wagon being driven by a nun (! Lol) pulled by two horses. Inspired by the Chronicle of Rouen (which includes the letter from the first Abbess, Mary Taylor, back to the mother house in Gravelines which is copied into the chronicle and describes their difficult journey)!
Image of a cedar tree with five roots to represent the five Benedictine houses for English women on the continent. Inspires by Abbess Mary Neville's Annals.
Another image inspired by the experience of the Poor Clares establishing their convent in Rouen. This is an image imagined to be their first house, with broken windows and religious graffiti on the walls left by the previous occupant who was trying to ward off plague. The room was described by the nuns as having "nothing but two naked bedsteeds all ruin'd, the windows especially, so as the wind blew in on all sides, the walls were all adorn'd with... divine names... for a preservation from the plague... every one embrac'd their cobwebs, their dust, their ruines, & the wind whistling in every crevisse with thanks that yet He had given us a lodging, who had left none for himself.
My special subject is on #earlymodern English nuns in Catholic Europe (it rocks!) This semester I handover to students to come up with a short activity for each seminar. Today we had to make front covers for chronicles! Thought I'd share some of my #nuntastic favourites here. See alt text for deets
