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
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
Festtag Samstag, 6. August 2022, Kloster Mariensee 16 Uhr ‚Klangwelten 1522‘. Musik von Frauen in Reformation und Romantik Henrike Lähnemann und Anhad Arora (Oxford) stellen in einem Vortrag mit Musikbeispielen die Klangwelt der norddeutschen Frauenklöster von vor 500 Jahren und deren
Tuesday 19 July 2022, 1–2pm (BST) A year ago, Nicole Gilroy, Head of Book Conservation, and Alice Evans, Assistant Book Conservator, at the Special Collections department at the Bodleian Libraries, started a Textiles in Libraries project. This involved surveying and
Presentation for the Columbia University Seminar on Religion and Writing Monday, 28 February, 2-4pm (EST = 6-8pm GMT), meeting information on https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/religion-and-writing/ and https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting/ God’s hands writing the worldWord illustration for Psalm 18 in the Medingen Psalter written by the nun Margarete Hopes ca.
A guest blog by Nick Swarbrick (Oxford Brookes University). Nick is an Affiliate of the School of Education, lecturing in a variety of areas from spirituality to children’s literature Candlemas is nearly here again, and provides an opportunity for me to
As part of an interdisciplinary seminar organised by Prof. Julia von Ditfurth on “Objects” in medieval studies for MARS (Middle Ages & Renaissance Studies) at Freiburg University, I taught a class on the Medingen manuscripts as cultural objects, in conjunction
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 18:00-19:00 via zoom. Building on the success of Gregorian chant workshops with manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, a group of Oxford medievalists are offering insights into working with manuscripts during lockdown. Meet some of the manuscripts from the
Vortrag von Henrike Lähnemann auf Einladung von Michael Rupp am 29. Juni 2021, 18 c.t. / 5pm BST Handout mit dem Text eines der Briefe aus Kloster Lüne aus den 1490er Jahren (Brief 219 [Lage 16, f. 9v/10r]: Die Lüner