Book Alert: The volume Medinger Handschriften in Hamburg. Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung der Andachts- und Handschriftenkultur, herausgegeben von Katrin Janz-Wenig und Henrike Lähnemann on new insights into the Medingen manuscripts held at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg is currently undergoing
Republished with thanks from The Historian. The magazine of the Historical Association. Issue 169, Spring 2026, pp. 58-62. Read the full pdf here. The Life of Nuns: love, politics, and religion in medieval German convents In The Life of Nuns:
A Medingen Abbess As Owner of a Vernacular Sermon Manuscript? Duth boeck hort Margareten Stoterogge—“This book belongs to Margarete Stöterogge.” On the last page of a fifteenth-century book of Middle Low German sermons, someone has written a brief note: Duth
The Materiality of the Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Blog post for the conference ‘ZwischenRäume. Geistliche Frauen des Mittelalters zwischen Memoria und Materialität‘, organised by Gisela Muschiol in Bonn 26–28 June 2025 Liminal Spaces: Religious Women in the Middle
Call for Papers: Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung der Andachts- und Handschriftenkultur 2007 fand an der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, unter Leitung des damaligen Handschriftenreferenten Hans-Walter Stork, eine Ausstellung statt ‘Von Frauenhand. Handschriften aus Kloster Medingen’, die den Auftakt zu einer
A blog post written by Marlene Schilling for the auction house Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books on their newly acquired Medingen prayerbook (sigla JG), 24 March 2024. All images courtesy of Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books Right at the beginning
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
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.