Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
The ‘Song of Songs’ in Medieval Female Communities Lecture for the Training Group ‘Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’ At the start of the ‘Song of Songs’, the choir of the young women sing ‘Draw me after
Que scripsit scripta, sua manus sit benedicta.Anno domini M°CCCCC°xxiiij scripsi ego, soror Cecilia Hughen, hunc librum cum fauore venerabilis domine nostre A R, anno etatis mee XXIII°.Que librum istum post obitum meum possederit, oret amore Ihesu et Marie pro scriptrice
From 18 October 2024 to 9 February 2025, the Ikonenmuseum Frankfurt in conjunction with two other museums of icons is presenting an exciting exhibition at the Design Museum in Frankfurt: IKONA – Holy Women as depicted in icons from the
Since the publication of ‘The Life of Nuns’ which is open access available via Open Book Publishers, there have been a number of reactions to it from a wide variety of people, academic colleagues as well those interested in the
Am 25. März 2025 wird die Taschenbuchausgabe der ‘Unerhörten Frauen’ bei Ullstein erscheinen. Darin wird auch das zusätzliche Kapitel zu ‘Liebe und Freundschaft’ erscheinen, das für die englische Version erstellt wurde. Im Vorgriff darauf erscheint hier alsAuszug der dritte Teil
Call for Papers: Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung der Andachts- und Handschriftenkultur 2007 fand an der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, unter Leitung des damaligen Handschriftenreferenten Hans-Walter Stork, eine Ausstellung statt ‘Von Frauenhand. Handschriften aus Kloster Medingen’, die den Auftakt zu einer
Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents ‘The Life of Nuns’ is open access available via Open Book Publishers https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0397For a 20% discout on paper copies, use the code LONHL_24 Listen to a podcast about the volume on ‘Gone
Carolin Gluchowski writes: I am pleased to announce that my poster, “Female Spaces of Learning: A Glimpse Behind Medieval Convent Walls,” was awarded first place at the conference “Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the
A blog post written by Marlene Schilling for the auction house Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books on their newly acquired Medingen prayerbook (sigla JG), 24 March 2024. All images courtesy of Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books Right at the beginning
As part of the Oxford International Song Festival’s 2023 strand ‘Artistic Manuscripts’, liturgical music from the Medingen manuscripts in the Bodleian Library was featured at St Edmund Hall on 19 October 2023. The event was named Goostly Psalmes since it