TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemmel,Katerina
AU  - Schleif,Corine
AU  - Schier,Volker
TI  - Katerina's windows: donation and devotion, art and music, as heard and seen through the writings of a Birgittine Nun
SN  - 9780271033693
AV  - NK5350.A1 
U1  - 748.50943/37B 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - University Park, Pa
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Lemmel, Katerina
KW  - Bridgettines
KW  - Germany
KW  - Art
KW  - History
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Church history
KW  - Class of Spring 2016
KW  - John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Briefsammlung
KW  - gnd-content
KW  - Quelle
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Looking through words, numbers, images, buildings, and melodies : glimpses of childhood and marriage, investment and donation, in the nuremberg of Katerina -- Imhoff Lemmel, 1466-1516 -- Disappearing behind veils and walls with windows : Katerina's rituals and rhetoric of passage in June 1516 -- Opening windows of communication : building and business, letters from 1516 -- Sitting at the window : news of shattered promises and bad returns : letters from February through July 1517 -- Windows of opportunity : bad times, singing for saffron, sights and sounds -- Scents and tastes, of commemoration : letters from August through December 1517 -- Writing by window light, singing by candlelight : Benefactions through windows to the world outside : letters from 1518 -- Windows under scrutiny : letters from 1519 -- Some good eyeglasses : letters from 1520-1522 -- Breaking windows : violent clashes in the Peasants' War of 1525 -- Now through a glass darkly, but then face to face : Katerina's last letter last words and last will -- Conclusion: Moving forward with a glance in the rearview mirro
N2  - "Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz311708226inh.htm
UR  - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz311708226kla.htm
ER  -