Meg Bernstein is a PhD candidate in Art History at UCLA, where she is writing her dissertation about the architecture of parish churches in twelfth and thirteenth century England; her dissertation research was conducted while Samuel H. Kress fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she was also Associate Lecturer. She holds a BA in Art History and English literature from Smith College, and MAs in Art History (UMass Amherst) and Religion and the visual arts (Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music.
An Anglo-Saxon princess founded a nunnery in the eel-filled marshy waters of East Anglia; see how it developed during the Middle Ages.