@hlaehnemann
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
This is certainly what @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and I have been doing with Taylor Editions! @tayoxford.bsky.social The model is appreciated by reviewers, e.g. muse.jhu.edu/article/965571
Very excited for today's lecture by one of our doctoral students, Timothy Powell, for the English Goethe Society, at Senate House 5.45pm. Still time to register to attend in person or online via ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Really pleased with this review of Katarzyna Kapitan's edition of the Hrómundur Saga in the @tayoxford.bsky.social Editions series run by @emmahuber.bsky.social & myself as a not-for-profit open access initiative muse.jhu.edu/article/965571 #TEI #xml @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
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New: offer for a 2-week scholarship to research Lincoln College Senior Library oxbibsoc.org.uk/grantsandfel... (don't be put off by the kiss of Judas as banner for the grants page...)
For the next generation of human translators! Very excited abt new Masters in Creative Translation starting at Oxford, on which I (very happily!) will be teaching History of Translation & Digital Editions 📯
Deadline 3rd March 2026 @ox.ac.uk @tayoxford.bsky.social
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Learn about some significant new finds in Bodleian Libraries’ Chinese collection including an important missing page from the world’s earliest text of Cantonese opera safely hidden inside a 40-volume imperial dictionary, two leaves of a rare copper plate print album commissioned by Kangxi Emperor.
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Now online available: youtu.be/cbomiVgrlos - it was real fun to speak to a hardcore linguistics audience!
Hugely exciting coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk with the Curator of Chinese Collections presenting new discoveries hidden in plain sight (or at least among the pages of well-known printed volumes) youtu.be/zVVrjp5PunQ
Speaking tmrw Mon 9 Feb 2026, 5.15pm for the General Linguistics Seminar about the nuns' code-switching language - all welcome! @oxhumanities.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social Sneak preview of some examples in medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/20...
Came across @hlaehnemann.bsky.social's team's fabulous blogpost only this just now -- should have checked before trying to piece together what's confusing myself... historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/wts-yt-the-a...
Thanks for that excellent piece with neat illustrations!
GHIL Fellow for Medieval History Thomas Kaal and host Kim König talk with Henrike Lähnemann (@HLaehnemann), Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk), about her recent GHIL Lecture.
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Brilliant presentation at the coffee morning @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today on religious manuscripts from Southeast Asia: youtu.be/PSQAWeweyOs
Now online: presentation of new acquisitions of Hebrew manuscripts @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. NB: The @oxmedstud.bsky.social coffee mornings in the Weston Library start again this Friday! youtu.be/HjRoPmJ1Dxg?...
A monk and a robot reading a manuscript together as part of a screenshot
Starting now! medieval.ox.ac.uk/arsinquirendi/ Anthony Harris (Cambridge). Using Generative AI for Medieval Studies Research (II) - a hands-on workshop
www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/are-we-... Protest against the proposed closure of Modern Languages at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social from the students' perspective #languagesmatter
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@fromtga.bsky.social Star is up! #Herrnhut
We always knew this but it is nice to see it confirmed! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-multilin...
An excellent opportunity to do e.g. intensive archival research for anybody with historic interests - calling on @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
Applications for scholarships for @ox.ac.uk students to spend a year at graduate / postdoc level at Germany (Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss) now open www.ox.ac.uk/students/fee...
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Senior Research Fellow with Chaplaincy @stedmundhall.bsky.social available for Oxford theologian - apply by 7 Feb. Lovely college & chapel community (& a medieval crypt!) www.seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/no...
The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice!
The lecture on 1525 for @ghilondon.bsky.social now also available as video - worthwhile to see the Wheel of Fortune & 16c pamphlets youtu.be/3hIqzxUPp2M
Delighted to be chosen as one of the Telegraph's best books of 2025!
See the complete list here: www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...
OUT NOW: 'A Portrait of Samuel Hartlib: In Search of Universal Betterment' by Charles Webster provides a comprehensive modern study of Samuel Hartlib (1600–1662), a prolific correspondent and chronicler and a central figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life.
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Charles Webster's book on Samuel Hartlib has been published! A milestone in reconstructing a European-wide network of critical early modern intellectuals, linked with Comenius & al. @openbookpublish.bsky.social - open access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Do you have an idea for a #digitalhumanities #hackathon project? Would you like our (@ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social) DH students to work on it? Reach out!
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'Kapitan’s commitment to making her work freely available represents perhaps the best and most community minded way forward for future textual scholarship.' <3
So pleased that the reviewer agrees with what we (@emmahuber.bsky.social & @hlaehnemann.bsky.social) believe in: #openaccess & #opensource
Happening next Tuesday!
Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern Germany, looking at examples from nuns’ letters, Reformation pamphlets, and songs. 👇