As part of Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural events, there was the Launch of a Website Reformation 2017 at the Taylor Institution with presentations from German Studies students and a drinks reception in the Voltaire Room, sponsored by the Cultural Attaché Charlotte Schwarzer
Inaugural Lecture Online
Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in Medieval German Literature and Linguistics on The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts took place on 21 January 2016, in the Lecture Theatre of the Taylor Institution, followed by a reception, 6pm. Now online! See
Celebrating German Studies
22 January 2016, 2pm, Taylor Institution: Round Table on the Future of German Studies on the Occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann, Chair in Medieval German Literature and Linguistics Speakers: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer (University of Freiburg), Dr
Lüne Letters Project takes off
Henrike Lähnemann (Chair in Medieval German, Oxford, and Fellow of St Edmund Hall) and Eva Schlotheuber (Chair in Medieval History, Düsseldorf) have been granted a three-year fully funded project by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung to edit one of the most extensive and significant
Online Resources for Music in the Medingen Manuscripts
All manuscripts from the Lüneburg convents, including Medingen, with music notation have been catalogued by Ulrike Hascher-Burger in Verborgene Klänge. Inventar der handschriftlich überlieferten Musik aus den Lüneburger Frauenklöstern bis ca. 1550, published by Olms in 2008. Her website musica devota (on a Dutch
Collaborative nuns
Slides from my spotlight presentation (10 min.!) for the Manuscript Collaboration Colloquium in June 2015: pdf-version
Bodleian allows photo sharing
As part of the Digital Toolkit, the Bodleian Library at Oxford now allows sharing of photographs taken with permission for research purposes. This allowed me to upload the two Medingen manuscripts currently held at the Bodleian, the Latin-Low German Easter
Bibliography added
The bibliography is work-in-progress. It is mainly based on the bibliography in the volume Ulrike Hascher-Burger and Henrike Lähnemann, ‘Liturgie und Reform‘, Tübingen 2013. Open access articles will be added in due course. Please report errors and additional publications via
RISM sigla for manuscripts
Country code – library code D-Au = Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg D-B = Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin D-BMs = UB Bremen D-EFu = Forschungsbibliothek Gotha D-Gs = Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen D-HIb = Dombibliothek Hildesheim D-HIs = Stadtarchiv Hildesheim D-Hs = Staats-und
Relocation of the Medingen Manuscripts Website
The website for Medingen Manuscripts which for eight years was hosted by Newcastle University, has moved to St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford in June 2015 (archived here). Since I want to take the opportunity, to implement some new features