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Netzwerke der Nonnen published!

Netzwerke der Nonnen published!

After having been available as a digital resource in preliminary form for a number of years, the definite version has now been published in a hefty but handsome volume by the altehrwürdig Tübingen-based publisher Mohr-Siebeck: Netzwerke der Nonnen. Kritische Edition

Henrike Lähnemann May 26, 2025May 26, 2025 Content Read more

Celebrating Cecilia. 500 Years Manuscripts from Neukloster Buxtehude

Celebrating Cecilia. 500 Years Manuscripts from Neukloster Buxtehude

Que scripsit scripta, sua manus sit benedicta.Anno domini M°CCCCC°xxiiij scripsi ego, soror Cecilia Hughen, hunc librum cum fauore venerabilis domine nostre A R, anno etatis mee XXIII°.Que librum istum post obitum meum possederit, oret amore Ihesu et Marie pro scriptrice

Carolin Gluchowski December 21, 2024December 22, 2024 Content Read more

Conversations on Enclosure

Conversations on Enclosure

Since the publication of ‘The Life of Nuns’ which is open access available via Open Book Publishers, there have been a number of reactions to it from a wide variety of people, academic colleagues as well those interested in the

Henrike Lähnemann October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Content, Updates Read more

Liebe und Freundschaft im Frauenkloster

Liebe und Freundschaft im Frauenkloster

Am 25. März 2025 wird die Taschenbuchausgabe der ‘Unerhörten Frauen’ bei Ullstein erscheinen. Darin wird auch das zusätzliche Kapitel zu ‘Liebe und Freundschaft’ erscheinen, das für die englische Version erstellt wurde. Im Vorgriff darauf erscheint hier alsAuszug der dritte Teil

Henrike Lähnemann August 1, 2024September 1, 2024 Content Read more

Medinger Handschriften in Hamburg

Medinger Handschriften in Hamburg

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

Katrin Janz-Wenig June 27, 2024September 1, 2024 Updates Read more

The Life of Nuns

The Life of Nuns

Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents ‘The Life of Nuns’ is open access available via Open Book Publishers https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0397For a 20% discout on paper copies, use the code LONHL_24 Listen to a podcast about the volume on ‘Gone

Henrike Lähnemann June 9, 2024January 24, 2025 Content Read more

Poster Presentation on Medieval Convent Education

Poster Presentation on Medieval Convent Education

Carolin Gluchowski writes: I am pleased to announce that my poster, “Female Spaces of Learning: A Glimpse Behind Medieval Convent Walls,” was awarded first place at the conference “Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the

Carolin Gluchowski May 22, 2024September 1, 2024 Content Read more

Nox Auriflua. Illuminating Easter with a Medingen Prayerbook

Nox Auriflua. Illuminating Easter with a Medingen Prayerbook

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

Marlene Schilling March 28, 2024September 1, 2024 Updates Read more

Singing from Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

Singing from Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

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

Henrike Lähnemann October 19, 2023September 1, 2024 Events Read more

Unerhörte Frauen! Book on Medieval Nuns Published

Unerhörte Frauen! Book on Medieval Nuns Published

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.

Henrike Lähnemann June 3, 2023October 17, 2024 Updates Read more
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