Book from Special Collections discussed in BBC3 radio documentary about Suster Bertken

Dieuwke van der Poel, associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities, cooperated in a BBC3 radio documentary about the 15^th-century Utrecht anchoress Suster Bertken

In Suster Bertken, an episode in the series Sunday Features, we also hear Andrea van Leerdam about the handwritten biography of Suster Bertken on the title page of a printed collection of saints’ lives (H fol 252 rariora).

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You can listen to the episode via BBC Sounds.

Or do you want to know more about Suster Bertken and how her life as an anchoress in the middle of the bustling city of Utrecht looked like? Or about the handwritten biography on the title page? Read the background story on the Special Collections website.