What happens when you spend too long cataloging lines, rubrics, crosses, and prayer structures in a 16th-century prayerbook? Apparently I default to poetry. Send help.
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Neuer Beitrag - neue #1000WorteForschung! Sandra Groß und Katrin Rösler stellen ihr Forschungsprojekt bei der Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (#FOVOG) vor: Sankt Marien zu #Helfta. Ein Kloster in den Netzwerken seiner Zeit (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert) https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/39387
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Als Mechthild von Magdeburg († [vor] 1294) im 13. Jahrhundert ihre visionären Texte[1] niederschrieb, tat sie dies nicht im Rückzug einer weltabgewandten Einsiedelei, sondern in Helfta eingebettet in eine klösterliche Gemeinschaft, die geistige Auseinandersetzung, Bildung und Schriftproduktion aktiv förderte. Ihre Schriften...
A prayer said once is an event. Repeated across the day, it becomes a practice that holds.
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I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.
Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.
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Musicologists love antiphons. But a 16th-century prayerbook suggests the real center of gravity in the Divine Office was the psalms. The evidence? Counting drop caps.
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History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.
Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.
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Blog post: Threefold illumination, one determined nun: first despise yourself, then fall in love with God, then surrender everything. Medieval spiritual growth, step by step.
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Blog post on an early modern deathbed meditation from a Bregenz convent prayerbook, with context, analysis, and a provisional transcription/translation of the Seventh Word.
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@JourneysInFilm oooooooo looks cool! I hadn’t heard of Rebel Hearts but have put it on my watch list! #nuntastic!
My mom was friends with several nuns during those protest years; I suppose that’s one of the reasons I got interested in nuns’ experiences in general
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