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
Unerhörte Frauen. Die Netzwerke der Nonnen im Mittelalter, a new book on the networks of the nuns in the Middle Ages by Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber, presents the world of the religious women in their own voices and art works, unlocking rich resources, particularly from late medieval Northern German convents.
On 16-19 March 2023, a special conference ‘Frauen der Hanse‘, organised by the ‘Netzwerk Hansekultur’, took place at Kloster Medingen, to discuss the role women played in the Hanseatic League. In honour of the place as well as of the
Was: Thematische Sitzung zu Frauenklöstern als Übersetzungsorten an, als Teil des Seminars “Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit” Wer: Henrike Lähnemann (FRIAS) und Alyssa Steiner (Bamberg) Wann: Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022, 10:15-11:45 Uhr Wo: Im Anatomie-Vorlesungssaal des FRIAS, Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg.
The Medingen text production happened as part of textual exchange between the nuns of the convent and beyond; the modern equivalent is the exchange between scholars: as a follow-up from Carolin Gluchowski and myself presenting on the ‘Salve festa dies’
Yesterday, in preparation for a Gregorian chant workshop and as part of the History of the Book show-and-tell sessions, Dr Andrew Dunning, R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, opened the Handbook of the
The SUB Hamburg has uploaded five manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen to the DFG-viewer.
Reblogging from #PolonskyGerman, the digitisation project between the HAB Wolfenbüttel and the Bodleian Library Oxford, originally posted on 6 December 2019: https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-17/ We’re delighted to be sharing a post from a sibling blog, History of the Book, written by participants in
In the week before Christmas 2018, I had the chance of consult two key manuscripts from the Medingen corpus in the Cathedral Library of Hildesheim which are going to be digitised as part of the #PolonskyGerman project. The Director of the library, PD Dr Monika Suchan, kindly allowed me to experiment with capturing the materiality of these in a series of short video clips.