scholar_farmerToday's blog post is a family sleuthing story for a noblewoman, Rosina von Ems, who enters Thalbach in Bregenz in the early 17th century. What does it mean to arrive from wealth?
blogged today, on a convent sister at Thalbach who becomes Maisterin. She kept a diary, much of which was incorporated into the Convent Chronicle -- and she gives us a lot of details about the world around her. Have a read if you like!
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Today, an exploration of the donor network for the building of Thalbach's church in 1609
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I wrote a blog post today on the arrival of six-year-old Caterina Haidenhoferin at Thalbach in 1588, and the circumstances surrounding her arrival...
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Today's blog contribution is an assessment of "old documents" as part of the 18th c Chronicle for the monastery of Thalbach in Bregenz Austria, a house of Franciscan Tertiaries (eventually)
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I have a new blog post ("Manipulations of reality's sounds") that addresses Drever's 2002 article on Soundscape Composition and compares it to an incident involving a dramatic storm as told in the Thalbach nuns' chronicle.
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https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/2024/11/manipulations-of-realitys-sounds-drever.html
My nun is uncharacteristically and ungenerously smug when reporting that a former Mitschwester was "condemniert und verdambt" for leaving the convent and tempting others to do so -- but partying in your private residence in town was evidently an irritant to those who were trying to live a more regulated life.
Monastic Chronicle: paying in pigs
Because if you're raising pigs, and the monastery needs foodstuffs, why translate through monetary units? Just deliver the pig!
I'm sure this is a "well duh" for many of my colleagues, but it is my own special moment of "aha" for the day for me!
A new meaning for the term "piggybank"?
I'll see myself out...
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And because this isn't my normal "thing" (I'm a musicologist, talk to me about neumes and I'm fine!), I was remarkably slow to realize that about a third of the folks were paying their bills in "tusks" -- "hauern" -- that is, with pigs.
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And in my monastic chronicle, men evidently pay for things, while women pay more often for prayers and services. (This is ca. 1606-7)
Not entirely, of course: one of the women pays for a window, and two others for specific door-latches. ("I scrimped and saved and paid for this lock and key, look at me!")
Also, you could be a servant and still help fund the monastery.
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