Nuns: Part 1

Our resident historian Laura is back to answer some of your questions about nuns and #conventlife! Did women choose to go into convents? Were convents really places of female equality? Were women allowed out of the convent? In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Héloïse says it's a life that has advantages. What were those "advantages" like? What else did they do for fun? WAS there fun?? OMG. SO MANY QUESTIONS. Plus, a special convent-esque GAYSMR. Episode transcript now available! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zveb2mHa_KGH0andbjVyQJjxELJxXNtPrHl674geuBk/edit Links from the show: - Find Laura on Twitter: http://twitter.com/labhistorical - Nuns: a History of Convent Life by Silvia Evangelisti: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nuns-9780199532056 - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: https://www.netflix.com/title/80179762