Opening lecture for the “FrauenORT Niedersachsen 33” (blue plaque scheme for the German State Lower Saxony) at the Abbey of Mariensee in honour of Abbess Odilia of Ahlden. Odilia was Abbess of the Cistercian convent in the early 16th century
Reblogging from a post for the “enclosure” group, an initiative by Stacie Vos that brings together artists interested in the experience of medieval enclosure and its relevance for the current situation. Stacie Vos wrote on 22 June 2020: “Today we
The SUB Hamburg has uploaded five manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen to the DFG-viewer.
Reblogging from #PolonskyGerman, the digitisation project between the HAB Wolfenbüttel and the Bodleian Library Oxford, originally posted on 6 December 2019: https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-17/ We’re delighted to be sharing a post from a sibling blog, History of the Book, written by participants in
In the week before Christmas 2018, I had the chance of consult two key manuscripts from the Medingen corpus in the Cathedral Library of Hildesheim which are going to be digitised as part of the #PolonskyGerman project. The Director of the library, PD Dr Monika Suchan, kindly allowed me to experiment with capturing the materiality of these in a series of short video clips.