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Who did Henrike Lähnemann work for from 2015 to 2016?
Henrike Lähnemann Henrike Lähnemann ( born 1968 in Münster ) is a German medievalist and holds the Chair of Medieval German , University of Oxford . She is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall , Oxford . Career . Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian , and the granddaughter of the German medievalist ( née Benary ) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner ; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg , Germany . She studied German literature , History of Art and Theology at the University of Bamberg , the University of Edinburgh , Free University of Berlin and University of Göttingen . After a PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature , Lähnemann worked at the University of 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 University of Zurich . Between 2006 and 2014 she held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University , and was also Head of the German Section in Newcastles School of Modern Languages . 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 . In 2015 , she was appointed to the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford . 2015-2024 , she spends two months a year a Senior Research Fellowship at FRIAS , made possible by co-funding of the Chair by the VolkswagenStiftung , the DAAD , and the University of Freiburg . Her research focuses on medieval manuscripts , the relationship of text and images and how vernacular and Latin literature are connected , currently mainly in late medieval Northern German convents . At the moment she is working on a funded project to edit the letters of the nuns from Lüne ( together with Eva Schlotheuber ) , and the edition of prayer books of the Medingen Convent . Lähnemanns major topic is the engagement with the Reformation and printing . She brought a new linguistic and interdisciplinary angle to Reformation Studies in Oxford , completing the team of experts - Lyndal Roper and Diarmaid MacCulloch being counted among them . As part of the Translating , Printing , Singing the Reformation project a website providing access to digitized Reformation pamphlets was launched , as well as a blog and podcast documenting the most recent activities of the Reformation team . Furthermore , book printing workshops and new productions of key scenes from the Reformation took place . The political relevance of the project becomes evident in the combination of Reformation and anti-Brexit ideas , but especially in the use of Reformation pamphlets for a protest-Hallelujah in the context of civil resistance in Hong Kong . The author Angelika Overath dedicated her novel Sie dreht sich um to Lähnemann . Research Projects . - Treasures of the Taylorian . Series One : Reformation Pamphlets - Medingen Manuscripts - The Nuns Network . Editing the Lüne letters ( with Eva Schlotheuber , financed by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung ) . Film documentation of the project . - Sword of Judith Project - The Renner of Hugo von Trimberg - Jüngerer Sigenot Selected publications . - Lähnemann , H. , Schlotheuber , E . et al.. : Netzwerke der Nonnen . Edition und Erschließung der Briefsammlung aus Kloster Lüne , vol . 1 , Tübingen 2020 : Mohr Siebeck , in press - Lähnemann , H. , Jones , H. , Keßler M . and Ostermann , C . [ ed. ] : Martin Luther . Sermon von Ablass und Gnade ( Treasures of the Taylorian . Series One : Reformation Pamphlets 2 ) 2018 - Lähnemann , H . Das Erfurter ‘Enchiridion’ in der Goslarer Marktkirchen-Bibliothek , in : Marktkirchen-Bibliothek Goslar . Beiträge zur Erforschung der reformationszeitlichen Sammlung , ed . by Helmut Liersch ( 2017 ) , pp . 232-243 . - Lähnemann H. , Jones , H . [ ed. ] : Martin Luther , Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen ( Treasures of the Taylorian . Series One : Reformation Pamphlets 1 ) , 2017 . - Lähnemann H . , Schlotheuber , E . et al. : Netzwerke der Nonnen . Edition und Erschließung der Briefsammlung aus ( ca . 1460-1555 ) , in : Wolfenbütteler Digitale Editionen . Wolfenbüttel 2016- , online . - Lähnemann H . Der Medinger “Nonnenkrieg” aus der Perspektive der Klosterreform . Geistliche Selbstbehauptung 1479-1554 , in : 1517-1545 : The Northern Experience . Mysticism , Art and Devotion between Late Medieval and Early Modern , ed . by Kees Scheepers et al. , Ons Geestelijk Erf 87 2016 , pp . 91-116.Lähnemann , H. , Hascher-Burger , U. : Liturgie und Reform im Kloster Medingen . Edition und Untersuchung des Propst-Handbuchs Oxford , Bodleian Library , MS . Lat . liturg . e . 18 ( Spätmittelalter , Humanismus , Reformation 76 ) , Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck 2013 . - Lähnemann H . Medinger Nonnen als Schreiberinnen zwischen Reform und Reformation . In : B-J Kruse , ed . Rosenkränze und Seelengärten . Bildung und Frömmigkeit in niedersächsischen Frauenklöstern . Wolfenbüttel : Herzog August Bibliothek , 2013 , pp . 37–42 , 319-320 . - Lähnemann H . Text und Textil . Die beschriebenen Pergamente in den Figurenornaten . In : Klack-Eitzen , C. , Haase , W. , Weissgraf , T. , ed . Heilige Röcke . Kleider für Skulpturen in Kloster Wienhausen . Regensburg : Schnell & Steiner , 2013 , pp . 71–78 ( 79-173 ) . - Lähnemann H . Also do du ok . Andachtsanweisungen in den Medinger Handschriften . In : Brüggen , E ; Holznagel , F-J ; Coxon , S ; Suerbaum , A , ed . Text und Normativität im deutschen Mittelalter . Tübingen : de Gruyter , 2012 , pp . 437–453 . - Lähnemann H . Der Auferstandene im Dialog mit den Frauen . Die Erscheinungen Christi in den Andachtsbüchern des Klosters Medingen . In : Koldau , L.M , ed . Passion und Ostern in den Lüneburger Klöstern . Ebstorf : Verlag Kloster Ebstorf , 2010 , pp . 105–134 . - Brine K , Ciletti E , Lähnemann H , ed . The Sword of Judith . Judith Studies Across the Disciplines . Cambridge , UK : Open Book Publishers , 2010 . - Lähnemann H . Per organa . Musikalische Unterweisung in Handschriften der Lüneburger Klöster . In : Lähnemann , H. , Linden , S , ed . Dichtung und Didaxe . Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters . Berlin / New York : Walter de Gruyter , 2009 , pp . 397–412 . - Lähnemann H. , Linden S , ed . Dichtung und Didaxe . Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters . Berlin / New York : de Gruyter , 2009 . - Lähnemann H . Hystoria Judith : Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12 . bis zum 16 . Jahrhundert . Berlin : Walter de Gruyter , 2006 . - Lähnemann H . An dessen bom wil ik stighen . Die Ikonographie des Wichmannsburger Antependiums im Kontext der Medinger Handschriften . Oxford German Studies 2005 , 34 ( 1 ) , 19-46 . External links . - Personal Homepage - Henrike Lähnemann on Twitter - Henrike Lähnemann on Pinterest