Extreme Sensescapes: The Medieval Birgettine Environment, Fashioned through Art and Architecture, Music and Rituals

Professor Corine Schleif will discuss the digital (re)creation of Saint Birgitta’s monastic sensescape as ideal “home” for late-medieval same-sex communities. This spectacular late-Gothic art, music, and architecture challenged prevailing hegemonies and facilitated women’s agency in surprising ways.