Danielle Westerhof
Freelance Historian and Librarian
Profile
From researching medieval attitudes towards the dead body for my PhD to providing research support to curatorial and conservation projects for the National Trust, my main interest is in keeping the past relevant to the present and the future. I also work as a freelance special collections librarian for the Trust and others, and am a contributor to the Trusted Source project.
What is a hermitage?
In early Christianity, a hermitage was a place where religious men lived on their own to escape the temptations of the world. In eighteenth-century landscape gardens a hermitage was also a retreat, but for its aristocratic owners to rest in on their walks.
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