Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
Guest blog post by Anaïs George, doctoral researcher at Halle Researching the Medingen Manuscript O3 at Keble College In February 2026, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks as an academic visitor in Oxford, working with Henrike Lähnemann. Like
Women and the Reformation. Religious Life, Communication, and Materiality Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 25–28 August 2027 Deutsche Fassung weiter unten, ebenso eine Bibliographie The conference Women and the Reformation: Religious Life, Communication, and Materiality will take place from 25 to
Republished with thanks from The Historian. The magazine of the Historical Association. Issue 169, Spring 2026, pp. 58-62. Read the full pdf here. The Life of Nuns: love, politics, and religion in medieval German convents In The Life of Nuns:
For anyone who has worked with the manuscripts from Medingen, a newly recognised book is never simply “another manuscript”. It is another voice from a community whose books travelled much further than their makers could ever have imagined. The late
Transparent Textile Curtains and the Experience of Revelation in Medingen Manuscripts Mina Miyamoto BE1, fol. 173v © Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Photo: Mina Miyamoto) When I first began working on textile curtains in medieval manuscripts, I was struck by how easily they
In March 2026, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Copenhagen as part of a Short-Term Scientific Mission at the Royal Danish Library. The aim of this research stay was to work on a group of Middle Low
Lecture for the General Linguistics Seminar, 9 February 2026 5:15pm – Linguistics Large Seminar Room, Faculty of Linguistics, 30.445 6:30pm – Reception in Linguistics Faculty Hub, followed by dinner at Mamma Mia. Sign-up sheet and further information What happens when
Yesterday I swapped my desk in Hamburg for a snowy train journey to Kloster Wienhausen. At minus five degrees the landscape between Hamburg and Celle was white and strangely quiet; when I arrived, the convent buildings and church were dusted
On a New Year’s Eve in the first half of the 1480s, two young nuns in the convent of Lüne sat down to write to a woman they admired (letter no. 260 in the first letter book, edited by Eva
What happened to books when religious houses reformed?—Historians have long told a dramatic story: reform arrives, old books become obsolete, and manuscripts are discarded, sold, or cut up for reuse. Yet the surviving manuscripts from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen,