Henrike Lähnemann

Henrike Lähnemann grew up in three medieval German towns that shaped her interest in medieval literature and religion: Münster, Lüneburg and Nürnberg. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the Universität Bamberg, and After a PhD on late medieval didactic literature, Lähnemann worked at the Universität Tübingen, where she gained her Venia legendi in German Philology with a study of the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a semester as Visiting Professor at the Universität Zürich. Between 2006 and 2014 she held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and was also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages. Since 2015 she holds the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
Lähnemann's current research focuses on devotional writing from northern Germany, especially the manuscripts of the convent of Medingen. In 2010, the German Research Foundation nominated her for AcademiaNet, the database of profiles of leading women scientists; she also chaired Women in German Studies 2009-2015.

Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library sy...

Medieval German Studies

Medieval German Studies in Oxford cover the full range of the literary, cultural and li...

Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

Audio podcasts from the Designing English Exhibition. This exhibition will illustrate t...

Reformation 2017

The 'Reformation 2017‘ series highlights some of the events connected with the activiti...

Manuscript and Text Cultures

An interdisciplinary research series hosted by Queen's College that brings together spe...

Teaching the Codex

Presentations from the 2016, 2017, and 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquia at Merton Coll...

St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy Talks

The Research Expo is a biennial event at St Edmund Hall, designed to showcase the bread...

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activitie...

Recording the Reformation

Modern Languages Inaugural lectures

Inaugural lectures from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages ...

Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

In this series of five talks, conservators, curators and book artists to explore where ...

Title	Description	People	Date
Talk 6: Tying up loose threads: the Textiles in Libraries project so far	Join the Bodleian Conservation and Collection Care team to find out more about what the Textiles in Libraries project has involved so far.	Alice Evans, Nicole Gilroy, Henrike Lähnemann, Katica Laza	19 July, 2022
Singing together; apart: drama and medieval chant	As both audience members and actors, you will learn to sing the classic Easter sequence hymn 'Victimae paschali laudes' ('Praises to the paschal victim') and see how it formed part of a medieval play.	Henrike Lähnemann, Andrew Dunning, Zachary Guiliano, Nick Swarbrick, Marlene Schilling, Carolin Gluchowski	17 June, 2021
Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop for Candlemas	Building on the repertoire from our previous workshop, we will add further pieces for Candlemas where everybody is invited to join in by singing the communal response	Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning	29 March, 2021
Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon	In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries	Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning, Alexandra Burgar, Jasmine Lowe, Timothy Powell	15 December, 2020
Medingen Manuscripts	For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony).	Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian	Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen.	Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian	A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen.	Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
How to record music on the page	Professor Henrike Lähnemann discusses how the challenge of recording music on the page was made in the late middle ages by inventing a musical notation system	Henrike Lähnemann	18 October, 2018
Sermon on Indulgences	Relay Reading for the Launch of the 'Sermon von Ablass und Gnade' in the Taylor Editions.	Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Emma Huber, Martin Kessler, Christina Ostermann	2 May, 2018
Curating the exhibition 'Designing English'	Daniel Wakelin talks about the concept behind the exhibition 'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' in the Weston Library, Oxford, and about the thrill of working with original material from the Bodleian collection at Oxford Medieval Studies.	Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann	23 February, 2018
‘Make we joy now in this feast’	A carol for Christmas, ‘Nowell nowell nowell’, from a book of church music. MS. Arch. Selden B. 26, fol. 14v. Copied in the mid 1400s.	Henrike Lähnemann	20 December, 2017
Singing the Reformation in English	A Historical and Practical Introduction to Miles Coverdale’s Goostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songes by Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics and Fellow of St Edmund Hall.	Henrike Lähnemann	15 November, 2017
Teaching the Codex 2: Material and Digital	Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) gives a talk at the 2016 Teaching the Codex Colloquium.	Henrike Lähnemann	12 July, 2017
Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen	Relay Reading for the Launch of the Taylorian Pamphlet Series.	Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Emma Huber	31 May, 2017
Banned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall Library	This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther.	Henrike Lähnemann	3 April, 2017
A Tristan Tile in the Ashmolean	Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.	Henrike Lähnemann	21 February, 2017
Concert at the Mariensee Convent with the Oxford Bach Soloists	Concert at the Mariensee Convent with the Oxford Bach Soloists (A lecture-recital tracing the origins of Bach's Cantata 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (BWV 4) at Mariensee Convent in Northern Germany.	Henrike Lähnemann, The Oxford Bach Soloists, Alex Lloyd	5 December, 2016
Early Modern German Literature 1: Das Juttenspiel	Henrike Lähnemann on the Reformation publication of the ‘Juttenspiel’	Henrike Lähnemann	4 March, 2016
Early Modern German Literature 2: Judith plays	Henrike Lähnemann on the popularity of the Judith theme in Reformation drama	Henrike Lähnemann	4 March, 2016
Bible Translation in Germany	From Old High German via Martin Luther to Bibel in gerechter Sprache. A whistle stop tour of German Bible translation	Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Daniel Lloyd	3 March, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Abbess Bärbel Görcke (Mariensee): The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia	Multiple presentations from the German Studies Staff	Henrike Lähnemann, Abbess Bärbel Görcke	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht): Musical Notation	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Ulrike Hascher-Burger	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Alan Coates (Oxford): The Incunable Traces	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Alan Coates	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Nigel F. Palmer (Oxford): Cistercian Punctuation	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Nigel Palmer	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Andrew Honey (Oxford): The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Andrew Honey	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): Introduction	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Launching the website by Charlotte Schwarzer	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Charlotte Schwarzer	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: The Reformation Music Project: Alex Lloyd, Tom Hammond-Davies, Harry Meehan	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Alex Lloyd, Tom Hammond-Davies, Harry Meehan	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: The Website: Emma Huber	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Emma Huber	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Karlstadt pamphlets: Jennifer Bunselmeier	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Jennifer Bunselmeier	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Lustgarten der Seelen: Klaus Meyer	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Klaus Meyer	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Weissagung vom Papsttum: Kezia Fender	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Kezia Fender	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Hans Sachs’ Dialogue: Charlotte Hartmann	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Charlotte Hartmann	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: De captivitate babylonica: Lucas Eigel	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Lucas Eigel	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen: Howard Jones	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Passional Christi & Antichristi: Ed Wareham	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann, Edward Wareham	22 February, 2016
Website Reformation: Introduction by Henrike Lähnemann	Launch of the Reformation 2017 Website	Henrike Lähnemann	19 February, 2016
The Future of German Studies	Round Table on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann	Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Wilhelm Krull, Dorothea Rüland, Katrin Kohl, Carsten Dose, Ritchie Robertson, Henrike Lähnemann	19 February, 2016
The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in German Medieval Literature and Linguistics.	Henrike Lähnemann, Richard Ovenden, Sally Mapstone, kristin püttmann	15 February, 2016
Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction	Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford.	Henrike Lähnemann	4 February, 2016
Crossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation	Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies	Emma Dillon, Henrike Lähnemann, David Wallace, Chris Wickham	13 January, 2016

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