TY  - CHAP
A1  - Wareham, Edmund
T1  - The openness of the enclosed convent : evidence from the Lüne letter collection
T2  - Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23
N2  - This article draws on the nearly 1800 letters which survive from the Benedictine convent of Lüne, near Lüneburg in northern Germany, and were written between c. 1460 and 1555. It explores the textual and visual strategies which nuns in the later Middle Ages used to negotiate their enclosed status. It suggests that the language and imagery of openness were a means for the nuns to remind those outside the convent wall of their presence and purpose in life.
KW  - Kloster Lüne
KW  - Nonne
KW  - Convents
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Enclosure
KW  - Letters
KW  - Brief
KW  - Klausur
KW  - Offenheit
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68718
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687180
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/wareham_openness-of-the-enclosed-convent.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-029-9
SN  - 978-3-96558-030-5
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 272
EP  - 288
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -