{"id":1860,"date":"2025-06-25T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2025-06-28T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:03:21","slug":"sewing-gluing-adapting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/sewing-gluing-adapting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing, Gluing, Adapting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Materiality of the Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Blog post for the conference &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktf.uni-bonn.de\/faecher\/mittlere-u-neuere-kirchengeschichte\/aktuelles\/aktuelles-ressourcen\/tagung-zwischenraeume-26-28-juni-2025\"><strong>ZwischenR\u00e4ume<\/strong>. <strong>Geistliche Frauen des Mittelalters zwischen Memoria und Materialit\u00e4t<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;, organised by Gisela Muschiol in Bonn 26\u201328 June 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Liminal Spaces: Religious Women in the Middle Ages between Memoria and Materiality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major exhibition&nbsp;<em>Krone und Schleier<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cCrown and Veil\u201d), held in Essen and Bonn in 2005, marked a significant milestone in the scholarly engagement with religious women of the Middle Ages. At the same time, both the exhibition and the accompanying academic conference stimulated new lines of inquiry. Twenty years on from&nbsp;<em>Krone und Schleier<\/em>, it is timely to take stock and reflect on the insights and developments that have emerged in the intervening decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a historical perspective, the past forty years have witnessed remarkable shifts in the contextualisation of the lived realities of religious women and their communities, as well as a re-evaluation of the sources. The focus now turns to the&nbsp;<em>liminal spaces<\/em>&nbsp;inhabited by these women, between enclosure and the world, between external expectations and internal aspirations, and between constraints and agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An assessment of these liminal spaces reveals that medieval religious women shaped their convents as places of retreat which, at the same time, exerted influence on broader societal developments. These spaces could function simultaneously as sites of memoria and of authority, as arenas of relationship-building and identity formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ZwischenR\u00e4ume<\/strong>. <strong>Geistliche Frauen des Mittelalters zwischen Memoria und Materialit\u00e4t<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mit der gro\u00dfen Ausstellung \u201eKrone und Schleier\u201c, die im Jahr 2005 in Essen und Bonn stattfand, wurde eine erste Bilanz der Forschung zu geistlichen Frauen des Mittelalters gezogen. Gleichzeitig regten die Ausstellung sowie der zugeh\u00f6rige wissenschaftliche Kongress die Forschung zu neuen Fragen an. 20 Jahre nach \u201eKrone und Schleier\u201c ist es an der Zeit, Zwischenbilanzen zu ziehen und nach den Erkenntnissen und Entwicklungen der Forschung der vergangenen 20 Jahre zu fragen. Insgesamt gilt f\u00fcr die historische Perspektive auf die Lebenswirklichkeiten geistlicher Frauen und ihrer Gemeinschaften, dass die vergangenen 40 Jahre bemerkenswerte Ver\u00e4nderungen der historischen Kontextualisierung und eine neue Sicht auf die Quellen hervorgerufen haben. Im Fokus sollen die ZwischenR\u00e4ume der geistlichen Frauen stehen, zwischen Klausur und Welt, zwischen \u00e4u\u00dferen und inneren Anspr\u00fcchen und Handlungsoptionen. Eine Bilanz der ZwischenR\u00e4ume kann sichtbar machen, dass geistliche Frauen des Mittelalters in ihren Konventen einen R\u00fcckzugsraum gestalteten, der gleichzeitig Auswirkungen auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen hatte, der sowohl Raum der Memoria als auch Raum der Herrschaft, Raum der Beziehungen und Raum der Identit\u00e4ten sein konnte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-1024x733.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-1024x733.png 1024w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sandstone relief featuring reading women, Werden, c.1060 <small>\u00a9 Schatzkammer Werden<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Flyer Tagung ZwischenR\u00e4ume: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktf.uni-bonn.de\/faecher\/mittlere-u-neuere-kirchengeschichte\/aktuelles\/aktuelles-ressourcen\/tagung-zwischenraeume-26-28-juni-2025\/flyer-zwischenraeume.pdf\/@@download\/file\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentation recording <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prerecorded video of traces of material engagement with the liturgy in three Medingen manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, presented by Andrew Dunning, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sewing, Gluing, Adapting: The Materiality of the Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xzlB2UZFK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 248, fol. 173r (Medingen 16. Jh.), fol. <a href=\"https:\/\/iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/iiif\/viewer\/?iiif-content=https:\/\/iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/iiif\/canvas\/840b0731-b9f6-4fc7-8cf5-68d42fb4a55d.json\">173r<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuscripts in order of appearance, for more information cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\">https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk<\/a> under the relevant sigla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O2: Manual for the Provost (O2): Oxford, Bodleian Library, <a href=\"https:\/\/medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/catalog\/manuscript_6494\">MS. Lat. liturg. e. 18<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 early 1470s, revised c. 1479<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 2: added half-page, glued in<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 47vb: Cum rex gloriae with initial<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 82: sewn-in additional prayer; updated old quire of the \u2018Rituale\u2019 for anointing the sick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O1: Medingen Bodleian Prayer-Book (O1): <a href=\"https:\/\/medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/catalog\/manuscript_6544\">MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 third quarter 15th century, revised after 1494 and in the 16th century<br>&#8211; \u00a0Binding with the roll stamp of Venus, Prudentia, and Lucretia<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 28v (prayer for L\u00fcneburg and the Abbess of Medingen)<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 174v (nuns and lay-people greet the Easter sun)<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 141v (Glued-in maiden)<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 200v hook-shaped paper veil for S: Sewn in by making use of the perforation made by pricking<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 217v (Glued-in lions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O4: Medingen Bodleian Psalter (O4): Oxford, Bodleian Library, <a href=\"https:\/\/medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/catalog\/manuscript_4468\">MS. Don. e. 248<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 after 1505 <br>&#8211; \u00a0Binding, bone plaque and its 19th century frame<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 14v-15r to show that the edges were trimmed<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 16v-17r to show addition<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 31v-32r to show that the additions were part of the rebinding<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 113v: new initial to show psalter structure after the Reformation<br>&#8211; \u00a0fol. 173r Harrowing of Hell, veil, Quis est iste<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ox.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=fc45ba0b-390c-453c-af5c-b30900ff2534\">actual presentation recorded in German<\/a> (but without the video). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs from the conference &#8216;Passion und Ostern in den L\u00fcneburger Kl\u00f6stern&#8217;, March 2009 in Ebstorf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-1024x563.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-1536x845.png 1536w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2.png 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">27 March 2007, photograph taken by Henrike L\u00e4hnemann, featuring, among others Gisela Muschiol (in red coat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-679x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-679x1024.png 679w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3.png 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Backview of statue of the Risen Christ in Kloster Wienhausen, photographed by Henrike L\u00e4hnemann on 29 March 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Materiality of the Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Blog post for the conference &#8216;ZwischenR\u00e4ume. 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