Keynote for the 19th Annual German Graduate Symposium: Space, Time, and Direction, organised by Sarah Fengler and Alexandra Hertlein The talk explores how the Benedictine nuns of Lüne Abbey in the early 16th century used their correspondence to discuss theology,
Es war eine Ehre und Freude für das Projekt ‘Netzwerke der Nonnen’, zu dem 850-jährigen Jubiläum des Klosters Lüne den ersten Band der Briefedition im Kloster präsentieren zu können. Als wir überlegt haben, was sich für diese Gelegenheit aus den
Presentation for the Columbia University Seminar on Religion and Writing Monday, 28 February, 2-4pm (EST = 6-8pm GMT), meeting information on https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/religion-and-writing/ and https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting/ God’s hands writing the worldWord illustration for Psalm 18 in the Medingen Psalter written by the nun Margarete Hopes ca.
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.
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
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.