The wealthy Katerina Lemmel entered the Maria Mai monastery in
1516--and rebuilt it. In Katerina's Windows, readers can observe
how stained glass was donated and commissioned and witness
spectators' reaction to it, ranging from critical aesthetic
assessments to iconoclastic acts.
The book presents historical texts and interpretive analysis.
Katerina Lemmel and those around her are given voice through
translations of seventy-three sources, including personal and
business letters, chronicle accounts, and legal documents, most of
which have never been transcribed or published before. Necessary
explanations as well as theoretical considerations and critical
insights are provided through the voices of the authors.
Katerina Lemmel's letters allow glimpses into the materiality of
monastic life; views of the interconnected workings of art, music,
liturgy, and literature; evidence of the persuasive powers of a nun
who functioned as negotiator; accounts of one woman's struggles on
behalf of other women; and data on women's networks. The sources
provide insiders' insights into the spiritual economies later
scorned by Protestant reformers. They also offer an eyewitness
account of the social challenges to this system that erupted in
violent clashes during the Revolution of 1525.
The material offers a fresh look at art and music made by and
for nuns. Much previous literature has focused on nuns as mystics
and visionaries, and on their art as primitive or mundane. This
book demonstrates the roles of nuns as active agents for
sophisticated art and innovative liturgical music.
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