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. I...
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ICI Berlin Press
2022
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