The Life of Nuns: love, politics, and religion in medieval German convents

In The Life of Nuns: love, politics, and religion in medieval German convents (Open Book Publishers, 2024), Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber explore female religious communities from the late medieval and early Reformation-era in northern Germany, revealing them to be vibrant centres of learning, administration, devotion, friendship, and negotiation. The book challenges long-standing clichés of exclusion, passivity, and decline. Carolin Gluchowski spoke with Henrike Lähnemann about education, enclosure, friendship, music, reform, and the many ways medieval nuns have been misunderstood...