Call for papers for the annual conference for History of Women Religious of Britain & Ireland that will take place at the University of Glasgow, 29-30 August 2014.
Deadline for 200 word abstracts is 28 March 2014, more details at
http://www.history.ac.uk/history-women-religious/annual-conference
Any aspect of literacy & women religious of Britain & Ireland including but not limited to:
• Reading
• Writing
• Learning
• Textual cultures
• Book ownership
• Education of women religious
• Visual literacy
• Numeracy
• Texts written by or read by women religious
• Latin and vernacular texts
• Language
• Communication & exchange of texts
• Record keeping & governance
• Letters
• Map and plan making
• Musicology
• Female agency & power
• Codocology
• Community libraries
• Acts of reading and writing
• Community texts
• Printing
• Craft & creation
• Stereotypes of women religious & literacy