Please join us for a
Colloquium
with 
Visiting Professor Henrike L�hnemann

 

 
 
Monday, 15 September 2014
11:30am - 12:30pm
ROWE/CUE 130

"Female Cunning and Popish Depravity: 
The 1565 Print of Dietrich Schernberg's 
Sch�n spiel von fraw Jutten" 


 

The story of the female pope made it into the headlines long before Donna Cross's Pope Joan. In the 16th century, it provided welcome copy for the reformation debate around papacy, and so it is only thanks to two Lutheran ministers that a medieval play about the topic survived. The talk will contextualize Dietrich Schernberg's 15th century play about Germany's version of Pope Joan both 
within the medieval tradition of the "saintly sinner" and the Reformation controversy around papacy and the role of women in church before tracing the influence of the story on the imagination of the German Romantics.



Henrike L�hnemann of Newcastle University is currently Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. In January, Professor L�hnemann will take up the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford - as the first woman to do so in the 150 years of history of Modern Languages at Oxford. She is also president of Women in German studies, an organisation which promotes greater inclusiveness in academia. Her work focuses on devotional manuscripts written by 15th century nuns of the German state of Lower Saxony.
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