“Patient Genowefy, shameless Magdalene...” — author's meeting with Anna Brzezińska

Meeting with Anna Brzezińska, author of the book “Patient Genowefy, Shameless Magdalene. A guide to the Middle Ages of ordinary women”, led by Dr. Agata Stasińska, curator of the exhibition “Centennial. On the anniversary of the great exhibition of Silesian medieval art”

You will hear about medieval illuminators and authors of treatises, about the writer and clerk Margaret von der Stregon, who managed the city office in medieval Świdnica — among other things, about these women during the meeting accompanying the exhibition “The Century”.

About the book: “In the Middle Ages, women were considered the sinful daughters of Eve, morally and intellectually inferior to men. Laws and customs subjected them to the power of fathers, husbands, and brothers—for their own good, of course. But the fates of real women prove that they were beings much more complex and complicated than we are sometimes told. Anna Brzezińska does not romanticize the past: she shows agency where it was possible — as resistance, cunning, adaptation or the struggle for dignity. The women in her stories teach what the Middle Ages really was—and many of their experiences remain surprisingly current.”

Meeting in the Pavilion of the Four Domes, free admission. If you have any questions, please contact the Education Department: edukacja.pawilon@mnwr.pl or call 71 712 71 81.