Cities of Ladies: The Court Beguinages.
Schedule
Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Bisschopstraat 5, 2596XH The Hague, Netherlands | The Hague, ZH
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You are warmly invited to join us for a special evening in our Women in Art Lecture Series: Cities of Ladies: The Court BeguinagesWe are especially honored to welcome our own club member, Dr. Sarah Joan Moran, as our featured lecturer.
The Court Beguinages were a remarkable network of semi-monastic Catholic women’s communities that flourished in the cities of the Low Countries from the thirteenth through the twentieth century. Their members, known as Beguines, played vital social and religious roles while becoming significant patrons of art and architecture. They built expansive complexes and filled them with paintings, sculptures, prints, textiles, and other devotional and decorative works.
In this richly illustrated lecture, Dr. Moran will explore the historical importance of these communities and reveal how the Beguines used buildings and images to foster devotional practice, shape collective identities, raise funds, and negotiate relationships with male authorities.
The talk is presented in conjunction with the forthcoming publication of Dr. Moran’s new book, Unconventional Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages, to be published this spring by Routledge.
Dr. Moran received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University in 2010. Her research on early modern women’s religious communities has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, among others. She previously served as Associate Professor of Art History in Utrecht and now works as a developmental academic editor.
Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking evening. Refreshments will be served, offering time for conversation and community before the lecture.
Registration for the lecture is open to both members and non-members. We encourage our members to sign up early.
Date: Thursday, April 23
Time: 6:30 pm, Lecture to begin at 7:00 pm
Location: AWC Clubhouse
Cost: €10 per person
Registration Opens: Tuesday, March 10
Registration Deadline: Monday, April 20
Min/max number of participants: 10/60
Contact: Cathy Van Order, [email protected]
Any excess proceeds will benefit our Charity of the Year BriBos
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