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  1. When is a long prayer actually long?

    Innsbruck FB 1118 first felt endless: Passion prayers, repeated scenes, and thirty-three Miserere. But its prayers unfold across Hours, Sundays, and multi-day cycles, and even “brief words” open into extended meditation.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #Manuscripts #PrayerBooks #MedievalStudies #Thalbach #DevotionalPractice #nuntastic #research #blog

  2. When is a long prayer actually long?

    Innsbruck FB 1118 first felt endless: Passion prayers, repeated scenes, and thirty-three Miserere. But its prayers unfold across Hours, Sundays, and multi-day cycles, and even “brief words” open into extended meditation.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #Manuscripts #PrayerBooks #MedievalStudies #Thalbach #DevotionalPractice #nuntastic #research #blog

  3. A medieval prayerbook rabbit hole:

    I started with a lovely prayer about angels, heavenly bread, sunlight, cedar trees, and worms.

    I ended up mapping a flexible but surprisingly stable choreography of prayer after Communion.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #nuntastic #medievalstudies #manuscripts #prayer #blog #research #AcademicChatter

  4. #nuntastic architecture -- the #Oettenbach Dominican sisters' wall panels now on display at the Zurich Landesmuseum, with dogs and foliage and a text scroll #Zurich #art

  5. What happens when you spend too long cataloging lines, rubrics, crosses, and prayer structures in a 16th-century prayerbook? Apparently I default to poetry. Send help.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #ManuscriptStudies #Nuntastic #Kalamazoo2026 #scribes #blog #research #BreakTime

  6. What happens when you spend too long cataloging lines, rubrics, crosses, and prayer structures in a 16th-century prayerbook? Apparently I default to poetry. Send help.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #ManuscriptStudies #Nuntastic #Kalamazoo2026 #scribes #blog #research #BreakTime

  7. Neuer Beitrag - neue #1000WorteForschung! Sandra Groß und Katrin Rösler stellen ihr Forschungsprojekt bei der Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (#FOVOG) vor: Sankt Marien zu #Helfta. Ein Kloster in den Netzwerken seiner Zeit (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert) mittelalter.hypotheses.org/393

    #histodons #nuntastic #Zisterzienser #Zisterzienserinnen #mediaevodons #Mediävistik

  8. Neuer Beitrag - neue #1000WorteForschung! Sandra Groß und Katrin Rösler stellen ihr Forschungsprojekt bei der Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (#FOVOG) vor: Sankt Marien zu #Helfta. Ein Kloster in den Netzwerken seiner Zeit (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert) mittelalter.hypotheses.org/393

    #histodons #nuntastic #Zisterzienser #Zisterzienserinnen #mediaevodons #Mediävistik

  9. I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

    Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

  10. I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

    Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

  11. Musicologists love antiphons. But a 16th-century prayerbook suggests the real center of gravity in the Divine Office was the psalms. The evidence? Counting drop caps.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #codicology #manuscripts #DivineOffice #chant #musicology #nuntastic #blog #research

  12. Musicologists love antiphons. But a 16th-century prayerbook suggests the real center of gravity in the Divine Office was the psalms. The evidence? Counting drop caps.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #codicology #manuscripts #DivineOffice #chant #musicology #nuntastic #blog #research

  13. History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.

    Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog

  14. Blog post: Threefold illumination, one determined nun: first despise yourself, then fall in love with God, then surrender everything. Medieval spiritual growth, step by step.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #nuntastic #Histodons #EarlyModern #DevotionalLife #blog #Research #Prayerbook

  15. Blog post: Threefold illumination, one determined nun: first despise yourself, then fall in love with God, then surrender everything. Medieval spiritual growth, step by step.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #nuntastic #Histodons #EarlyModern #DevotionalLife #blog #Research #Prayerbook

  16. Blog post on an early modern deathbed meditation from a Bregenz convent prayerbook, with context, analysis, and a provisional transcription/translation of the Seventh Word.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #ArsMoriendi #Nuntastic #EarlyModernStudies #Catholicism #blog #Research #AcademicChatter

  17. Blog post on an early modern deathbed meditation from a Bregenz convent prayerbook, with context, analysis, and a provisional transcription/translation of the Seventh Word.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #ArsMoriendi #Nuntastic #EarlyModernStudies #Catholicism #blog #Research #AcademicChatter

  18. @JourneysInFilm oooooooo looks cool! I hadn’t heard of Rebel Hearts but have put it on my watch list! #nuntastic!

    My mom was friends with several nuns during those protest years; I suppose that’s one of the reasons I got interested in nuns’ experiences in general

  19. @JourneysInFilm oooooooo looks cool! I hadn’t heard of Rebel Hearts but have put it on my watch list! #nuntastic!

    My mom was friends with several nuns during those protest years; I suppose that’s one of the reasons I got interested in nuns’ experiences in general

  20. @scholar_farmer And that reminds us that we've been meaning to ask you: Is Rebel Hearts on your radar?

    Even though it's not medieval, it struck us as something you might enjoy, because it is definitely #nuntastic

    journeysinfilm.org/film/rebel-

  21. @scholar_farmer And that reminds us that we've been meaning to ask you: Is Rebel Hearts on your radar?

    Even though it's not medieval, it struck us as something you might enjoy, because it is definitely #nuntastic

    journeysinfilm.org/film/rebel-

  22. Another blog post on that Thalbach Segen that I wrote about last week -- a "blessing" to be performed by the Sister during the mass. This gives the second half, and an assessment of how she works through spatial acts, equivalences, stacking of salvic things, and completeness articulated through binaries. She is creating whole-world protection for herself. Nifty!

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #16thc #prayer #nuntastic #blog #Research #Histodon #Catholic #WorldView

  23. Another blog post on that Thalbach Segen that I wrote about last week -- a "blessing" to be performed by the Sister during the mass. This gives the second half, and an assessment of how she works through spatial acts, equivalences, stacking of salvic things, and completeness articulated through binaries. She is creating whole-world protection for herself. Nifty!

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #16thc #prayer #nuntastic #blog #Research #Histodon #Catholic #WorldView

  24. I transcribed and translated a Catholic Segen, a kind of activating prayer, from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Here I provide Part I and an assessment of *how* the prayer works

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #Catholic #Prayer #Prayerbook #nuntastic #research #edition #AcademicChatter #blog #AmWriting #16thc #Histodons

  25. I transcribed and translated a Catholic Segen, a kind of activating prayer, from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Here I provide Part I and an assessment of *how* the prayer works

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #Catholic #Prayer #Prayerbook #nuntastic #research #edition #AcademicChatter #blog #AmWriting #16thc #Histodons

  26. Starting the year out with a January-calendar blog post, looking at "Calendars, Convent Books, and the Lives They Touched" in the Roman Breviary "verteütschung" (Augsburg 1535)

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #EarlyPrint #nuntastic #Calendar #January #blog #research #Histodons

  27. Starting the year out with a January-calendar blog post, looking at "Calendars, Convent Books, and the Lives They Touched" in the Roman Breviary "verteütschung" (Augsburg 1535)

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #EarlyPrint #nuntastic #Calendar #January #blog #research #Histodons

  28. My blog post today is a set of links for research on manuscripts and incunables from German-speaking lands, particularly from women's convents

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #BookHistory #weblinks #Research #Manuscripts #Incunabula #nuns #Nuntastic #blog #AmWriting #AcWri

  29. “Bad is the companion who hinders the common task.”

    Quoted from the 15th c Heiningen Philosophy Tapestry (and drawn from Aristotle) but applicable to so many different circumstances!

    #nuns #nuntastic #tapestry #medieval

  30. The Sisters of Kloster Goldstein who fled the old-age home to return to the convent are allowed to stay — if they give up social media and lawyer consultations

    It’s almost like their Provost didn’t have their best interests at heart

    (He didn’t)

    #nuns #nuntastic

    theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

  31. I created a two-page assessment of a devotional miscellany ca. 1460-1480, and sent it off to the museum as my "thank you" gift for having gotten permission to access it.

    Definitely female ("Suenderin"); definitely monastic (both liturgical and non-liturgical intercessions for the dead), and roughly datable for its prayer against the Turks.

    It's been a busy 24 hours. I probably should have slept more of them, but at least I have a work-product to show for my time!

    #nuntastic #medieval

  32. Today I learned…

    We were talking about enclosed nuns and SATB repertoire. (Go watch the Vivaldi Gloria documentary about the SATB women of the Ospedale. Do it, I’ll wait!)

    Anyway, on of our conference colleagues reported that her mother and her twin sister, both age 80, were now comfortably singing tenor and bass respectively.

    So convent SATB was almost certainly possible in at least some places, even without instrumental support

    Love that!
    #voice #nuns #nuntastic #choir

  33. I wrote a thing! This is my first extended assessment of Vorarlberg prayerbooks, focused on prayers "before" the image of Mary

    mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/10/1277

    #prayer #15thc #16thc #nuntastic #Catholic #BVM

  34. The Sisters at Kloster Goldenstein are definitely winning the publicity war! The three Augustinians are making the case that the church needs to give back by letting them inhabit their cloister as they'd been promised. And they've got a great Instagram presence to support their claims! I blogged about them today (and donated too)

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #nuns #nuntastic #dignity #autonomy #ChurchPolitics #nunsontherun #goldenstein #blog #AmWriting

  35. The Sisters at Kloster Goldenstein are definitely winning the publicity war! The three Augustinians are making the case that the church needs to give back by letting them inhabit their cloister as they'd been promised. And they've got a great Instagram presence to support their claims! I blogged about them today (and donated too)

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #nuns #nuntastic #dignity #autonomy #ChurchPolitics #nunsontherun #goldenstein #blog #AmWriting

  36. I've been writing blog posts about some of the interesting prayers from the Thalbach prayerbook, a 16thc manuscript probably copied by a Tertiary sister in the Bregenz convent -- nearly 300 pages in a single hand. These prayers, I'd argue, give an important glimpse into 16th c Franciscan spirituality. Today's contribution: a prayer on Mary's sorrows as redemptive

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

    #blog #AmWriting #AcWri #16thc #histodons #prayer #FranciscanTertiaries #nuntastic

  37. Maria Magdalena Rückert stellt in ihrem Beitrag eine wenig beachtete Quelle vor (und ediert sie gleich), die mitten in den Konflikt um die Einführung der Observanz im Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Johannes Baptista in Kirchheim unter Teck führt (English: she
    presents and edits a little-noticed source that leads right into the conflict concerning the introduction of observance in the Dominican convent of St John the Baptist in Kirchheim): doi.org/10.26012/mittelalter-3 #histodons #medievodons #nuntastic

  38. blogged today, on a convent sister at Thalbach who becomes Maisterin. She kept a diary, much of which was incorporated into the Convent Chronicle -- and she gives us a lot of details about the world around her. Have a read if you like!

    #nuntastic #MonasticChronicle #histodons #blog #AmWriting #17thC #comet #Comet1618 #HistoricalWeather #SnowballFight #AcademicChatter #Research

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

  39. Does this count as #nuntastic or not? I suppose it all depends on your point of view. Could make for an excellent TV mini-series, at least.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/dec