Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
A guest blog by Nick Swarbrick (Oxford Brookes University). Nick is an Affiliate of the School of Education, lecturing in a variety of areas from spirituality to children’s literature Candlemas is nearly here again, and provides an opportunity for me to
The Gerda Henkel Stiftung just announced its decision to fund The Nuns’ Network project for another 36 months (until May 2025), making it possible to edit the full extent of the impressive letter collections from the Benedictine convent of Lüne.
My talk for the Medieval Summer at St Alban’s Cathedral: From Medingen with Love. Medieval Manuscripts travelling through Europe traced the criss-crossing of manuscripts between Germany and England and discussed their transition from devotional to antiquarian objects. As preparation for
As part of an interdisciplinary seminar organised by Prof. Julia von Ditfurth on “Objects” in medieval studies for MARS (Middle Ages & Renaissance Studies) at Freiburg University, I taught a class on the Medingen manuscripts as cultural objects, in conjunction
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 18:00-19:00 via zoom. Building on the success of Gregorian chant workshops with manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, a group of Oxford medievalists are offering insights into working with manuscripts during lockdown. Meet some of the manuscripts from the
Vortrag von Henrike Lähnemann auf Einladung von Michael Rupp am 29. Juni 2021, 18 c.t. / 5pm BST Handout mit dem Text eines der Briefe aus Kloster Lüne aus den 1490er Jahren (Brief 219 [Lage 16, f. 9v/10r]: Die Lüner
“I’m currently making a video for Bodleian Library and looking for singers who would be prepared to record and send me a virtual choir clip to be featured in the film about the Polonsky German digitisation project. The film (working title:
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
Contribution for the online conference ‘Hymnus und Gebet’ The handout is available in two forms: as pdf and as “podcast” which makes the Latin and Middle Low German texts more accessible by reading them out aloud; this does not claim