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VI. Reformation

Chapter of: The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents(pp. 127–154)

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TitleVI. Reformation
ContributorHenrike Lähnemann(author)
Eva Schlotheuber(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0397.06
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0397/chapters/10.11647/obp.0397.06
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightHenrike Lähnemann; Eva Schlotheuber;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-06-21
Long abstractThe Lutheran Reformation of the 16th century in many ways follows on from previous monastic reform movements. A pertinent example is the discussion of indulgences which features also in the late 15th-century convent diary. The nun describes at length the events surrounding the visit by a papal legate in Braunschweig. The main part of the chapter details the ways in which the nuns during the Lutheran Reformation dealt with pressure to conform to the new regime and the ways in which the convents survived as Protestant institutions. This is visualized by the 17th-century panel painting (used also for the title image) which shows the vision of the nuns in Kloster Lüne of the crucified Christ advising them to become Protestant.
Page rangepp. 127–154
Print length28 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Henrike Lähnemann

(author)
Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at University of Oxford
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-5157

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
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3762-2818

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.