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Henrike Lähnemann
@hlaehnemann.bsky.social
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
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📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...
An excellent opportunity to do e.g. intensive archival research for anybody with historic interests - calling on @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
German Scholarships | University of Oxford
The Hanseatic Scholarships, the Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship and the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship were all established to promote closer Anglo-German links within a European context.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Senior Research Fellow with Chaplaincy @stedmundhall.bsky.social available for Oxford theologian - apply by 7 Feb. Lovely college & chapel community (& a medieval crypt!) www.seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/no...
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Delighted to be chosen as one of the Telegraph's best books of 2025!
See the complete list here: www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites from 2025, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
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November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
Henrike Lähnemann: 1525 and All That
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November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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OUT NOW: 'A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib: In Search of Universal Betterment' by Charles Webster provides a comprehensive modern study of Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), a prolific correspondent and chronicler and a central figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life.

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November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Charles Webster's book on Samuel Hartlib has been published! A milestone in reconstructing a European-wide network of critical early modern intellectuals, linked with Comenius & al. @openbookpublish.bsky.social - open access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib: In Search of Universal Betterment
The 2013 digitization of the vast Hartlib Papers archive highlighted the pressing need for a comprehensive modern study of Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), a central figure in seventeenth-century intellect...
www.openbookpublishers.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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'Kapitan’s commitment to making her work freely available represents perhaps the best and most community minded way forward for future textual scholarship.' <3
So pleased that the reviewer agrees with what we (@emmahuber.bsky.social & @hlaehnemann.bsky.social) believe in: #openaccess & #opensource
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Happening next Tuesday!

Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern Germany, looking at examples from nuns’ letters, Reformation pamphlets, and songs. 👇
Join us on 28 October at 5:30pm (GMT) for a lecture by Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) entitled '1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History'! 📅
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October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Tmrw 5pm @tayoxford.bsky.social ! Book launch for 'The Girl Who Lived in the Library' www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... - including a tour of the spoooky basement, a dramatic reading and looking at the exhibition
Book launch: The Girl Who Lived in the Library
Book launch of the newest publication in the ‘Treasures of the Taylorian’ series.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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📚 Book launch! 📚

Join us for the release of our new 'Treasures of the Taylorian' book 'Luisa Hewitt: The Girl Who Lived in the Library'- written by Luisa herself, and edited by Christina Ostermann!

📍Room 2, Taylor Institution Library
📅 Wednesday 15th October
⏰ 5:00 - 6:30pm
The Girl Who Lived in the Library – History of the Book
historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New Weston Library Coffee Morning online: 100 years of the Explorer Club - with maps, notebooks & plenty of anecdotes
youtu.be/08lZZZ7nU7Q
100 years of Oxford's exploration history at the Bodleian Library (Jean-Luc Portner)
YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann
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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Join us on 28 October at 5:30pm (GMT) for a lecture by Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) entitled '1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History'! 📅
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October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025
September 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thx to Emma Sarcol from PCER (Public&Community Engagement w/Research) for featuring #OxfordMysteries @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social in the latest newsletter! www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi... Pic Noah's Flood performed w/ St Giles choir dir by Siân Grønlie @stannescollege.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#nuntastic exhibition in Kloster Mariensee: three photographers exhibit their take on modern monastic life in the huge Baroque attic rooms of the convent. www.haz.de/lokales/umla...
August 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
Oxford Mystery Cycle 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Behind the Scenes
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July 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Watch out for this book by Charles Webster which presents the sum of his extensive research into early modern intellectual networks across Europe as seen through the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy birthday, @fromtga.bsky.social, celebrated by @spiegel.de as 'Winner of the Day' www.spiegel.de/geschichte/d...
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher – Oxford Medieval Studies
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June 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Great postdoc position at the ‘Österreichischer Bibelübersetzer’ project in Augsburg, until end of 2027 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...
Arbeitsstellenleiterin / Arbeitsstellenleiter (m/w/d) – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
www.bbaw.de
June 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The full playlist for the #OxfordMysteries is now online in its full glory - many thanks to Ben Arthur's team who did a magnificent job & to Ashley Castelino @oxmedstud.bsky.social for editing metadata and subtitles! A highlight of the @stedmundhall.bsky.social calendar!
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Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025 - YouTube
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June 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers
June 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM