Middle Low German Primer written by the Medingen Nuns
Henrike Lähnemann: Introduction to the Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts On the day after Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture, all four Medingen manuscripts held in Oxford (list of manuscripts) were displayed in the Weston Lecture Theatre and specialists discussed various aspects of the manuscripts.
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
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
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
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
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
Slides from my spotlight presentation (10 min.!) for the Manuscript Collaboration Colloquium in June 2015: pdf-version
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
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
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