Copyright
Henrike Lähnemann; Eva Schlotheuber;Published On
2024-06-21Page Range
pp. 177–192Language
- English
Print Length
16 pages
VIII. Appendix
Chapter of: The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents(pp. 177–192)
The appendix gives short histories of the main convents discussed in the book, and provides further information about female monastic life through a survey of the structure of their day with a glossary of terms.
Contributors
Henrike Lähnemann
(author)Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at University of Oxford
Henrike Lähnemann is the first woman to be appointed to a chair in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, where she teaches German literature of the Middle Ages and works on textual and visual evidence from the women’s convents of northern Germany.
Eva Schlotheuber
(author)Professor of Medieval History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Eva Schlotheuber is professor of Medieval History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, where she researches and teaches on the education and lifeworld of religious women. She was the first woman to chair the Association of Historians of Germany from 2016 to 2021.