Syon's Abbesses, women's leadership, and book networks in 15th century England

Speaker: Julia King, University of Bergen.

Syon Abbey is well known for its extensive libraries and its close relationships with London printers and late-medieval nobility. Julia King argues that the Syon Abbesses played a much more active role in the development of Syon’s social and bibliographical networks than has been previously allowed, telling a story of women's agency and leadership at England’s only Birgittine monastery.

Organised by Oxford Bibliographical Society and Merton College History of the Book Group.