Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
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
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.
Keynote for the 19th Annual German Graduate Symposium: Space, Time, and Direction, organised by Sarah Fengler and Alexandra Hertlein The talk explores how the Benedictine nuns of Lüne Abbey in the early 16th century used their correspondence to discuss theology,
Es war eine Ehre und Freude für das Projekt ‘Netzwerke der Nonnen’, zu dem 850-jährigen Jubiläum des Klosters Lüne den ersten Band der Briefedition im Kloster präsentieren zu können. Als wir überlegt haben, was sich für diese Gelegenheit aus den
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.