The openness of the enclosed convent : evidence from the Lüne letter collection
- 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.
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| Author: | Edmund WarehamORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687180 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/wareham_openness-of-the-enclosed-convent.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_14 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/29 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
| Tag: | Convents; Enclosure; Letters; Nuns |
| GND Keyword: | Kloster Lüne; Nonne; Brief; Klausur; Offenheit |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 272 |
| Last Page: | 288 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 497201437 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 2 Religion / 23 Christentum, Christliche Theologie / 230 Christentum, Christliche Theologie |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
