Recent experiments indicate the possibility of a doubly-magic character for the nucleus ~46Gd (Z=64, N=82). In this work the results of a large-scale shell-model study on the nucleus 146Gd and its neighbouring nuclei 145Eu, ~4SGd, 147Gd and 147Tb are presented. The configurations taken into account include up to 2p-2h excitations for protons and/or neutrons. The calculated spectra and static moments are compared with the experimental data. Finally, the present results on shell closure in 146Gd are discussed in connection with those derived from a similar approach applied to the well-known doubly-magic nucleus 2~

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This contribution discusses the hitherto overlooked ownership of the earliest printed books (incunabula) by Netherlandish female religious communities of tertiaries and canonesses regular connected to the religious reform movement of the Devotio moderna. Studies of book ownership and book collections in these communities have tended to focus on manuscripts. From the last decades of the fifteenth century onwards, however, these religious women increasingly came in contact with printed books, even though the involvement of the Devotio moderna with the printing press was limited. The discussion focuses on the channels via which tertiaries and canonesses acquired books produced by commercially operating printers, the ways in which incunabula affected what these (semi-)religious women read, as well as the ratio between printed books in Latin and the vernacular, and their function(s) within these communities. Thus the essay intends to sketch a preliminary image of the role of incunabula in female convents, and advocates a more inclusive approach of female religious book ownership.