Medieval women and their books. Manuscript culture and devotion in Germany and the Low Countries.

12.X.2012,

Oxford, Somerville College, Taylorian Institute.

PROGRAM

9.00–9.30 

Almut Suerbaum (Oxford). Welcome and Introduction.
 

9.30–11.00 

Ruth Wiederkehr (Zurich). Collecting Everyday Knowledge Quire by Quire – The Hermetschwil Prayer Book.

Susan Marti (Berne). Nuns as Book Illuminators – Liturgical Manuscripts from Mendicant Convents in Northwestern Germany.
 

11.15–12.45 

Racha Kirakosian (Oxford). The Book as Embodiment of Divine Truth – The Mystical Account of Christina of Hane.
Elizabeth Andersen (Newcastle). Birgitta of Sweden and the Printing Houses of Lübeck –
From the Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae to the Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe.

14.30–16.00 

Joni de Mol (Leiden). ‘Nothing but the open heart of Christ’ – How Alijt Bake Dealt with Books.
Ed van der Vlist (The Hague). Books used by Late Medieval Monastic Women in Holland
Taylorian Institute.

17.00–18.00 

Barbara Newman (Chicago). ‘Iam cor meum non sit suum’ – Exchanging Hearts, from Heloise to Helfta.

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