The Life of Nuns - Prologue: The Voices from the Past (Test Recording for OUP Audiobook)

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Open access volume 'The Life of Nuns. Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents' by Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber, translated by Anne Simon (Open Book Publishers 2024).
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The test recording was read in an office of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS) during a Senior Research Fellowship July/August 2024. The photograph in the background is by Li Buchholz of the head of Zeus from the excavations of my grandfather Friedrich Karl Dörner in Kommagene (Eastern Turkiye). The images screen-shared are from the open access volume. I have kept the test recording of the introductory material as an alternative format. The final audiobook was then recorded in the sound studio of Freiburg University Library.
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The audiobook is divided into separate files for each subchapter (I.1, I.2, I.3, and so on); the sub-chapter ‘1’ in each chapter are stories taken from the diary of a 15th century nun from Heilig Kreuz Braunschweig; sub-chapter ‘2’ explains the concepts of the main chapter; the sub-chapter ‘3’ introduces works of art and material culture from the convents.
The Prologue provides a brief introduction to the concept of the book to make the material and textual culture of medieval nuns from the German-speaking lands accessible. Each of the chapters is divided into three parts, featuring extracts from the diary of a 15th-century nun from Braunschweig; the systematic explanation of a key concept of female monastic life; and one or more objects from the German convents.