Katerina's windows donation and devotion, art and music, as heard and seen through the writings of a Birgittine Nun Corine Schleif and Volker Schier
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: University Park, Pa Pennsylvania State University Press c 2009Description: XLIV, 579 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 27 cmContent type:- Text
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- Lemmel, Katerina -- Correspondence
- Lemmel, Katerina -- Correspondence
- Bridgettines -- Germany
- Bridgettines -- Germany
- Art -- History -- Germany
- Music -- History and criticism -- Germany
- Germany -- Church history
- Class of Spring 2016
- John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities
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- Kloster Maihingen
- Birgittenorden
- Ordensleben
- Künste
- Geschichte 1500-1530
- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
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- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
- Kloster Maihingen
- Birgittenorden
- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
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- Birgittenorden
- Ordensleben
- Künste
- Geschichte 1500-1530
- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
- Kloster Maihingen
- Klosteranlage
- Stiftung
- Bautätigkeit
- Architektur
- Lemmel, Katerina 1466-1533
- Kloster Maihingen
- Klosteranlage
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:NK5350.A1 S35 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1941 |
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
"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
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