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Katerina's windows : donation and devotion, art and music, as heard and seen through the writings of a Birgittine Nun
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Katerina's windows : donation and devotion, art and music, as heard and seen through the writings of a Birgittine Nun

Author: Corine Schleif; Volker Schier
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Genre/Form: Briefsammlung
Quelle
Correspondence
Named Person: Katerina Lemmel; Katerina Lemmel
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Corine Schleif; Volker Schier
ISBN: 9780271033693 027103369X
OCLC Number: 242561765
Description: xliv, 579 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, geneal. tables ; 27 cm.
Contents: 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 mirror.
Responsibility: Corine Schleif and Volker Schier.
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"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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