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Beyond ShakespeareOxford Mystery Cycle 2025 (Behind the Scenes)We were invited to follow the Behind the Scenes journey of the Oxford Mystery Cycle performed at St Edmund Hall on Saturday, 26 April 2025. This is a mix of cast and audience discussion of the event as it was happening. Many thanks to the organisers for inviting us to wander around the event with microphones. Recorded by Liza Graham and Robert Crighton.
Watch the plays here! https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/21/the-oxford-medieval-mystery-plays-2025-programme/
Listen to our chat with Professor Henrike Lähnemann in the run up to the Cycle - https://audioboom.com/posts/8662793-discussing-the-oxford-medieval-mystery-cycle-2025
O...2025-07-0449 min
Beyond ShakespeareDiscussing: The Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025We have a special walk and talk discussing episode, recorded around St Edmund Hall in Oxford, with Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Fellow of St Edmund Hall and Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, as our guide to The Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle. Join host Robert Crighton, with Liza Graham, as we were given a walking tour around the route of the event, coming up on Saturday 26th April 2025. We were also briefly joined by Antonia Anstatt, who is part of the team.
We hope to be there at the event itself in April, and to be able to s...2025-03-0754 min
Gone MedievalLives of Medieval NunsThe often forgotten world of medieval nuns holds many secrets about the lives of ordinary people of the age, their daily routines, education, and societal roles. German medieval historian Henrike Lähnemann shares with Matt Lewis her research into the rich archives of convents, which revealed nuns' vibrant lives, from their involvement in local politics and commerce to their spiritual duties and family bonds. They discuss how medieval convents served as hubs of learning, medicine, and community interaction, complete with both solemn rituals and moments of joyful laughter.Gone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis and e...2024-12-2040 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Life of Nuns: Luke Wilkinson interviews Henrike LähnemannLuke Wilkinson interviews Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, to discuss her and Eva Schlotheuber's new book 'The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents' (Open Book Publishers, 2024). They discuss the ideas that circulated through the sounds and spaces of medieval German convents.2024-10-0554 min
Frauenleben. Inspirierende Frauen und ihre Zeit.Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)
Hildegard von Bingen war eine Volksheilige, bevor sie im Jahr 2012 von Papst Benedikt offiziell heilig gesprochen wurde. Sie war Äbtissin, Musikerin und Naturheilkundlerin. Und sie schuf mit ihren verschriftlichten Visionen ein eigenes theologisches Werk, das sich lohnt, wiederentdeckt zu werden.
Quellen für diese Folge:
Michaela Diers: Hildegard von Bingen. dtv 2012Barbara Beuys. Denn ich bin krank vor Liebe. Das Leben der Hildegard von Bingen. Hanser-Verlag 2001
Links und Tipps:
Maria von Nazareth (ca. 20 v. Chr. bis 34)
Henrike Lähnemann, Eva Schlotheuber, Unerhörte Frauen, Die Netzwerke der Nonnen im Mittelalter, Prop...2024-10-0300 min
Flurfunk GeschichteFG039 - Unverstandene NonnenNonnen sind heiß!? Zumindest in der Popkultur. Bereits in den ersten Monaten dieses Jahres sind sowohl ein Kinofilm, als auch auch ein Computerspiel erschienen, in dem eine Nonne die Hauptrolle spielt – dies wäre „Immaculate“ zum einen und „Indika“ zum anderen. In beiden Fällen sehen sich die Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer einer jungen, schönen Nonne gegenüber, die sich in einer ihr feindlich gesinnten Umgebung durchschlagen muss und dabei sowohl physischer, psychischer wie auch sexueller Gewalt ausgesetzt ist. Ein Motiv, das Solveig müde mit den Augen rollen lässt.Denn tatsächlich werden wir wieder und wieder m...2024-07-041h 42
Literatur Radio Hörbahn"Unerhörte Frauen." - von Henrike Lähnemann und Eva Schlotheuber eine Rezension von Rahel Micklich - Literaturkritik.de"Unerhörte Frauen." - von Henrike Lähnemann und Eva Schlotheuber eine Rezension von Rahel Micklich - Literaturkritik.de (Hördauer 19 Minuten)
Zwischen Tradition und Reformation, Selbst- und FremdbestimmungHenrike Lähnemann und Eva Schlotheuber schreiben über Nonnen im späten Mittelalter, über „Unerhörte Frauen“ und ihre Netzwerke der Liebe
Scito quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis – „Wisse, gegen die Liebe ist kein Kraut gewachsen!“ Nicht gegen die der Fürsorge für Kranke und Sterbende, um die sich die Lemgoer (Lüneburger, Medinger, Derneburger …) Nonnen liebevoll gekümmert haben, nicht gegen die, die sie allererst in Bewe...2024-03-2219 min
Epochentrotter - erzählte GeschichteUnerhörte Nonnen. Frauen im mittelalterlichen KlosterÖkonomische Bildung, florierende Netzwerke zu den Mächtigen des Reiches und Frauen im Kloster schließen sich aus? Weit gefehlt! In dieser Folge klären wir gemeinsam mit unseren beiden Gästen, den Professorinnnen Henrike Lähnemann und Eva Schlotheuber, was wirklich hinter unserem Bild von weiblichen Klosterbewohnern steckt. Sie geben uns spannende Einblicke in das alltägliche Leben der Frauen im Spätmittelalter, ihre umtriebigen Brieffreundschaften, Bildungs- und internen Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten im Klosterbetrieb und vieles mehr. Außerdem klären wir, warum wir heute so wenig über das Leben der Frauen in Klöstern wissen und dank welchen besonderen Qu...2024-01-101h 02
Zu Gast bei L.I.S.A. – Wortwechsel im StiftungshausL.I.S.A. - Vox femina. Zeugnisse von Nonnen im MittelalterIhre Stimmen verhallten hinter massiven Klostermauern - unzugänglich für die Nachwelt und damit dem Vergessen überlassen. Bis vor einigen Jahren, als im Zuge neuer Forschungen ein erstes Echo der lange Zeit stillen Frauen zu vernehmen war. Die Historikerin Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber von Universität Düsseldorf und die Philologin Prof. Dr. Henrike Lähnemann von der University of Oxford haben in einem gemeinsamen Projekt alte Quellenbestände erschlossen und erforscht. Darin werden die lange Zeit ungehörten Stimmen von Nonnen im Mittelalter wieder lebendig. Stimmen, die bislang ungekannte Geschichten erzählen und ein neues Bild vom Alltag in mittel...2023-08-211h 18
Medieval German StudiesMedingen ManuscriptsFor the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). The manuscripts are now in Oxford, Hildesheim and Wolfenbüttel. More information https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-2/2019-03-2730 minMedieval German StudiesSecond part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the BodleianMasterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. All the manuscripts featured are available via digital.bodleian search 'Medingen' on https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ for more details)
O1 Oxford Easter Prayer-Book (c. 1500): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4 Community: fol. 174v (nuns and lay-people); fol. 28v (prayer for Lüneburg and the Abbess) Printing: fol. 141v (Glued-in maiden); fol. 217v (Glued-in lions); Musical Notation: fol. 90r / 283v-284r / 36v-37r Binding: Early 16th cent. roll with Venus, Prudentius and Lucretia
O2 Manual for the Provost (1470s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. li...2019-03-2726 min
Reformation 2017Sendbrief vom DolmetschenRelay Reading for the Launch of the Taylorian Pamphlet Series. Speakers in order they are reading: Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Nigel Palmer, Catriona Seth, Andrew Allen, Alexandra Lloyd, Helmut Kollig, Kathrin Luddecke, Ed Wareham, Alderik Blom, John Partridge, Johanneke Sytsema, Ulla Weinberg, Ewa Wegrzyn, Jennifer Bunselmeier, Brigitta Poppe, Christine Baro-Hone, Patrizia Zachhuber, Hans Hahn, Elsa Voak , Eleanor Voak , Charlie Louth, David Murray, Franziska Kohlt, Katrin Kohl, Hannah Jackson, Claudia Piller, Tiziana Imstepf, Emma Huber, Sophie Hall, Maren Fichter, Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Lena Vosding, Martin Christ, John Flood.2017-05-3156 min
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy TalksBanned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall LibraryThis talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther. This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther. Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics) weaves together discussion of the book with the histo...2017-04-0311 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesA Tristan Tile in the AshmoleanHenrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.2017-02-2117 minReformation 2017Early Modern German Literature 1: Das JuttenspielHenrike Lähnemann on the Reformation publication of the ‘Juttenspiel’ Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Dietrich Schernberg’s play about Pope Joan (“Jutta” in German) was published by two Lutheran ministers as part of a Lutheran anti-papal polemical campaign. The lecture discusses the background of the controversial story, early modern German drama and the Reformation debate around papacy.2016-03-0453 minReformation 2017Early Modern German Literature 2: Judith playsHenrike Lähnemann on the popularity of the Judith theme in Reformation drama Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Martin Luther's judgement of the apocrypha and his influence on the development of early modern drama in Germany; the Judith play by Joachim Greff and those by Sixt Birck and Hans Sachs2016-03-0439 minReformation 2017Bible Translation in GermanyFrom Old High German via Martin Luther to Bibel in gerechter Sprache. A whistle stop tour of German Bible translation The joined presentation on Bible translation as 'Prism of Theology' was part of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation annual conference, 'Prismatic Translation', on 1 -3 October 2015, St Anne's College, Oxford. Speakers: Howard Jones, Henrike Lähnemann, Daniel Lloyd. 1300 years of German Bible translation in one hour!2016-03-031h 07Medieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Abbess Bärbel Görcke (Mariensee): The Prayer-Book of Abbess OdiliaMultiple presentations from the German Studies Staff Part 6 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2209 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Abbess Bärbel Görcke (Mariensee): The Prayer-Book of Abbess OdiliaMultiple presentations from the German Studies Staff Part 6 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2209 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht): Musical NotationPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 5 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2218 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht): Musical NotationPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 5 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2218 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Alan Coates (Oxford): The Incunable TracesPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 4 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2207 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Alan Coates (Oxford): The Incunable TracesPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 4 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2207 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Nigel F. Palmer (Oxford): Cistercian PunctuationPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 3 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2228 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Nigel F. Palmer (Oxford): Cistercian PunctuationPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 3 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2228 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Andrew Honey (Oxford): The Plaque in the Psalter and the BindingsPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 2 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2217 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Andrew Honey (Oxford): The Plaque in the Psalter and the BindingsPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 2 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.2016-02-2217 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): IntroductionPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 1 of 6: Masterclass on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann, held on Friday 22 January 2016 in the Lecture Theatre Weston Library. Website: medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk.2016-02-2216 minMedieval German StudiesMasterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): IntroductionPresentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 1 of 6: Masterclass on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann, held on Friday 22 January 2016 in the Lecture Theatre Weston Library. Website: medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk.2016-02-2216 minReformation 2017Website Reformation: Introduction by Henrike LähnemannLaunch of the Reformation 2017 Website Part 1 of 11: Presentations for the Launch of the Reformation 2017 website from German Studies staff and students and an address by the Cultural Attaché, Charlotte Schwarzer, German Embassy. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor-reformation.2016-02-1903 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesCrossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary ConversationLaunch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies The launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies included speakers: Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King's College London); Henrike Lähnemann (Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford); David Wallace (Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania); and Chris Wickham (Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford).2016-01-131h 10