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Dr. Sarah Joan Moran
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Historian of early modern #4B Catholic women, especially their patronage of art & architecture. Mostly Southern Low Countries. #nuntastic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321

Developmental scholarly editing: www.SJMoranEditing.com
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My article "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture" out now in the new special issue of the Early Modern Low Countries journal. Issue is on women, both North & South LC. Check out the other authors' pieces too!
#ArtHistory
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory

emlc-journal.org/article/view...
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) offers grants of $3,000 in 3 categories: Dissertation Support, Research, & Teacher Support (secondary school).
Deadline Jan 25.
Schlesinger Library Grant Programs
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites applicants for a variety of research grants that require use of its resources. Applications will be evaluated…
apply-radcliffe-institute.smapply.io
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026.

This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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And Art Herstory, too, commemorates the 400th anniversary of the Sofonisba Anguissola's passing! We now offer (very) limited edition hard cover journal with her self-image on the cover.

Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...

Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Park at Mariemont | AGENART
AGENARTPieza del mes: noviembre 2025Autora invitada: Sarah Moran Cómo citar este artículo/How to cite this article: Sarah Moran, "The Infanta Isabel Clara
agenart.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Submissions open! 14th annual HGSCEA Emerging Scholars Essay Prize: $500 to the author of a 2025 article/essay on history of German, Scandinavian, or Central European art, architecture, design, or visual culture.

Applicants must be members of HGSCEA (hgscea.org/hgscea-membe...).
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Seven years on the road, finding utopia in the lives of women – aeon.co/videos/seven... via @aeonmag
Seven years on the road, finding utopia in the lives of women | Aeon Videos
How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities
aeon.co
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The British Academy invite applications for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The scheme aims to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Epitaph of Beguine Joanna Vanden Straeten, beneath a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, Ghent, St. Elizabeth's church, formerly of the city's Grand Beguinage.
#nuntastic
#FlemishArt
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
agenart.org/the-infanta-...
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Park at Mariemont | AGENART
AGENARTPieza del mes: noviembre 2025Autora invitada: Sarah Moran Cómo citar este artículo/How to cite this article: Sarah Moran, "The Infanta Isabel Clara
agenart.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.

www.folger.edu/research/the...
Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore.…
www.folger.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Plan of the Aarschot Beguinage, 1673. Such a lovely orchard!
#nuntastic
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For grad students and recent PhD's: The Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is hosting a virtual “office hours” on the topic of applying for fellowships on Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30–11:30 am (EST)

Sign up at www.mfa.org/event/cna-of...
CNA Office Hours: Applying for Fellowships
Want to apply for fellowships that support the study of Netherlandish art but not sure where to begin? Wondering how to make your personal statement stand out, or how to ask for recommendation…
www.mfa.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Epitaph of Joanna Hasaert and her nieces/cousins Marie Ghisquiere and Margareta van Mosschroen, all Beguines at the Ghent Grand Beguinage. Installed below a statue of St. John. Ghent, St. Elisabeth's church.
#nuntastic
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Epitaph of Beguine Joanna Vanden Straeten, beneath a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, Ghent, St. Elizabeth's church, formerly of the city's Grand Beguinage.
#nuntastic
#FlemishArt
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Portrait of an Augustinian sister from the Antwerp Zwartzusters convent.Sixteenth century. I bet we can match that coat of arms to a name!
#nuntastic #FlemishArt
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Friday writing session: wrapping up conference paper on #earlymodern Spanish convent households in transit. An astonishing number of nuns moved across Spain, founding and reforming convents, being shuffled to others as need arose, etc. How did they preserve a sense of household?

#nuntastic #travel
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Virgin Mary on the rostrum of the pulpit at the Herentals Beguine church, framed by symbols of the Evangelists. Late 17th century. #nuntastic #FlemishArt
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Angels guard the passages through a screen at the #Diest Beguine church, which probably separated the Beguine community from the laity during services. Probably by the sculptor Jan Mason, aboutu 1670. #nuntastic #FlemishArt #ArtHistory
October 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Utterly charming devotional portrait at the Lier Augustinian (Zwartzusters) convent. The patron, Magdalena de Backer, included her name and the date of 1690 in an inscription. Photo via the KIK-IRPA. #nuntastic
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hi all, does anyone have access to this? Wellens, Robert. "Le domaine de Mariemont au XVIe siècle (1546-1598)." Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles 50 (1961): 241–247.
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM