Henrike Lähnemann
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
- Brilliant presentation at the coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today on religious manuscripts from Southeast Asia: youtu.be/PSQAWeweyOs
- Now online: presentation of new acquisitions of Hebrew manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. NB: The @oxmedstud.bsky.social coffee mornings in the Weston Library start again this Friday! youtu.be/HjRoPmJ1Dxg?...
- Starting now! medieval.ox.ac.uk/arsinquirendi/ Anthony Harris (Cambridge). Using Generative AI for Medieval Studies Research (II) - a hands-on workshop
- www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-... Protest against the proposed closure of Modern Languages at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social from the students' perspective #languagesmatter
- @fromtga.bsky.social Star is up! #Herrnhut
- We always knew this but it is nice to see it confirmed! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-multilin...
- An excellent opportunity to do e.g. intensive archival research for anybody with historic interests - calling on @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
- Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
- Senior Research Fellow with Chaplaincy @stedmundhall.bsky.social available for Oxford theologian - apply by 7 Feb. Lovely college & chapel community (& a medieval crypt!) www.seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/no...
- The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!
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- Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
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- Charles Webster's book on Samuel Hartlib has been published! A milestone in reconstructing a European-wide network of critical early modern intellectuals, linked with Comenius & al. @openbookpublish.bsky.social - open access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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- Tmrw 5pm @tayoxford.bsky.social ! Book launch for 'The Girl Who Lived in the Library' www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... - including a tour of the spoooky basement, a dramatic reading and looking at the exhibition
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- New Weston Library Coffee Morning online: 100 years of the Explorer Club - with maps, notebooks & plenty of anecdotes youtu.be/08lZZZ7nU7Q
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- Thx to Emma Sarcol from PCER (Public&Community Engagement w/Research) for featuring #OxfordMysteries @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social in the latest newsletter! www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi... Pic Noah's Flood performed w/ St Giles choir dir by Siân Grønlie @stannescollege.bsky.social
- #nuntastic exhibition in Kloster Mariensee: three photographers exhibit their take on modern monastic life in the huge Baroque attic rooms of the convent. www.haz.de/lokales/umla...
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- Watch out for this book by Charles Webster which presents the sum of his extensive research into early modern intellectual networks across Europe as seen through the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social
- Happy birthday, @fromtga.bsky.social, celebrated by @spiegel.de as 'Winner of the Day' www.spiegel.de/geschichte/d...
- Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
- Great postdoc position at the ‘Österreichischer Bibelübersetzer’ project in Augsburg, until end of 2027 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...
- The full playlist for the #OxfordMysteries is now online in its full glory - many thanks to Ben Arthur's team who did a magnificent job & to Ashley Castelino @oxmedstud.bsky.social for editing metadata and subtitles! A highlight of the @stedmundhall.bsky.social calendar! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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- Today 1.30-3pm in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution Library
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- Excitement rising! Just got from Ben Arthur the prefinal view of the whole @oxmedstud.bsky.social Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle ahead of the launch on Thursday medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
- Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 2:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...
- Free to use from Friday 13 June to the end of the month: the great Cambridge Dictionary of Hymnology (I had fun writing the article on Leisen) hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk
- An initiative true to Nigel Palmer's legacy - donate for a travel fund to support graduate students doing archival work mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... @mediumaevum.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
- Congrats to @nikokontovas.bsky.social Andrew Dunning, Péter Tóth & the other colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social for a superbly curated exhibition!
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- Brilliant teaser for the film documentation of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025 by the talented film team around Ben Arthur, now available on @oxmedstud.bsky.social Thx @torchoxford.bsky.social & @stedmundhall.bsky.social for support! youtu.be/CCQJzg4ldd8
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- I am giving free tours of Iffley Church today 2.30-4pm; there will be a few chocolate Ladybirds hiding in the churchyard in case children (or adults…) need an additional incentive beyond Norman architecture! St Mary the Virgin, OX4 4EG iffleychurch.org.uk
- Tomorrow (Saturday): Recital 1.30pm in the Teddy Hall chapel. Do come - a fun programme, over in 30 mins! @stedmundhall.bsky.social www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/music...
- Here a recording of my introductory talk, 'Bach at Home', on the importance of family for the formation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music youtu.be/MiDTLkiiJkM
- Yesterday's Toccata concert with Anhad Arora was so much fun! Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oxf...
- Yesterday's Toccata concert with Anhad Arora was so much fun! Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oxf...
- For some fun, listen to the 'Liederspiel' podcasts Anhad Arora and I did as lockdown project in 2020 liederspieloxford.medium.com
- Tmrw, Sat 23 May 2025, 2.30pm! First concert in the 'Bach Toccatas' series w/ Anhad Arora. I'll be talking about the social, literary, & religious context for Bach's works. Talk one: Bach at Home www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...
- 📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...
- #Totentanz #dansemacabre with Mai-Britt Wiechmann whose doctoral dissertation on Lübeck incunables included the #MiddleLowGerman inscription now on the East side of my house! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdrmMLEL/
- Fab presentation this morning at the Weston Library Coffee Morning (Bodleian) on the difficult task to deciee which book are "true" duplicates and might be sold… youtu.be/0XyjfYH12GY
- Birthday double whammy: yesterday, the first physical copies of the 'Netzwerke der Nonnen' dropped - appropriately Kloster Lüne was the first to get their hands on them; and the special issue #middleages of @spiegel.de GESCHICHTE was published archive.is/202505161352...
- ha, danke - hatte ich noch gar nicht gesehen, dass das erschienen ist! bin gespannt, was ich da gesagt habe… @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social
- Blogpost by Marisa Irawan about the workshop on 'Female Enlightenment' on 7/8 May 2025 @stedmundhall.bsky.social & @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social www.ziegler-edition.de/post/ziegler...
- Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
- Enjoyable lecture for the 150-year anniversary of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, including singing in Low German lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...
- Thx for coverage to the Oxford Mail! Title image featuring @oxfordgerman.bsky.social 2nd year Wilfred Lamont & DPhil student Timothy Powell @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2512116...
- Actually the reading starts with drinks at 6pm! I managed to confuse myself further by also putting in the dress rehearsal time into the medieval calendar. So come after your 5pm commitments and enjoy a drink in the Old Library before heading down to the Crypt
- The charming ridiculousness of Oxford/ @oxmedstud.bsky.social: there are five (!) events on Friday 5pm which I all would like to attend! medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m... (full disclosure: I am organising one @stedmundhall.bsky.social, so am partly responsible for the #embarrassmentOfRiches)
- The charming ridiculousness of Oxford/ @oxmedstud.bsky.social: there are five (!) events on Friday 5pm which I all would like to attend! medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m... (full disclosure: I am organising one @stedmundhall.bsky.social, so am partly responsible for the #embarrassmentOfRiches)
- #OxfordMysteries - glad that our Early New High German play worked on stage! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social
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