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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Kin, Cash, and Convent: Providing for Nieces (and Nephews) in 1613 Bludenz

Excerpts of AT-VLA, BludenzStadtA, Charter 10255 of 1613 In Counter-reformation Bludenz in 1613, widow C atharina Zü r cherin * , a citizen...

Monday, March 10, 2025

Age and the Monastic Life at Thalbach in Bregenz

Age and the monastic life: age at entry visualized BACKDROP: When did convent sisters join a monastic community? There’s no one clear answe...

Friday, February 21, 2025

Mapping Soundscapes: Applying Stratoudakis and Papadimitriou’s Measures to Memory and Place

A 3-way Venn diagram of Individual, Sound and Environment Stratoudakis, Constantinos and Kimon Papadimitriou 2007. “A Dynamic Interface for...

Friday, February 14, 2025

Diligent Devotion: Maria Euphrosina Vöglin’s Leadership at Thalbach

Image of the Annunciation as a Thalbach monastic seal (from the hand of Euphrosina Vöglin) The women’s tertiary monastery of Thalbach in...

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Cynthia J. Cyrus: I'm Cynthia Cyrus, a musicologist/monastic historian and professor at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on late medieval and early modern women's monastic culture -- literate, musical, and otherwise -- particularly at the intersections of silence, sound and memory.

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