Agenda

Moments de vida d'Ermessenda de Vilamarí, monja de Sant Daniel (S. XIV)

Lecture by Anna Gironella related to the exhibition "Medieval Girona"

Thursday, March 13,

Call de Girona

On 17th December 1345, Ermessenda de Vilamarí, nun from the monastery of St. Daniel of Girona ordered an alabaster tomb for the remains of St. Daniel to the master Aloi. The contract specifies which scenes from the life of the saint she wanted to be represented on the tomb, as they appeared in a book of Sacristans. This episode will reconstruct the life of a Benedictine nun and it portrayed a fragment of the history of the monastery of St. Daniel.

Anna Gironella Delgà is an archivist at the Municipal Archives of Girona (Historical Archive of the City). She is a graduate in History and Documentation and Master in Sexual Difference Studies. She is a researcher in Duoda - a center for the Research of Women. Her research focuses on the history of medieval Girona and she has published several studies on women in medieval times and about monasteries and convents of the City of Girona.

The conference will take place at the Nahmanides Institute (C/ Sant Llorenç, s/n ) at 7 pm.

Free admission

Organization: Patronat Call de Girona and Girona History Museum as part of the temporary exhibition "Medieval Girona", which is located in Girona History Museum, the Museum of Jewish History and the cloister of the Monastery of St. Daniel.