Lunch with the Libraries: Women of the Book

Description

Join curatorial postdoctoral fellow Kelsey Champagne (A&S '15) for a virtual introduction to the exhibition "Women of the Book: The Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women, 1450–1800," on view in the George Peabody Library Exhibit Gallery through Jan. 31.

Though the voices of women were largely absent from traditional historical sources, the "Women of the Book Collection" turns that problem on its head through its focus on extremely rare or unique sources of evidence of the institution of female monasticism — the world of nuns and convents dedicated to enlivening, sharing, and preserving the spiritual, intellectual, and interior lives of women for the wider world, in manuscript and in print. This exhibition of treasures from the collection paints the world of these holy women in living color — from psycho-spiritual autobiographers, bilocating nuns, rockstar-status saints, ecstatic mystics, and female healers, to the hidden careers of women printers and engravers and miracle makers.

This event is sponsored by the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, and the Office of Alumni Relations Lifelong Learning, Arts and Entertainment Industry Networks.