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
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
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
As congratulations by the Nuns’ Network Project, here a couple of letters on the Feast of the Church Consecration from the first Lüne letter book as a commemorative gift. Dedicated to the Abbess and Convent of Kloster Lüne on the
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