Vortrag zum Thema Lichtverschmutzung anlässlich des 50-jährigen Jahrestages der Gründung des Harzplanetariums in Wernigerode.

Lecture on light pollution on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Harz Planetarium in Wernigerode.

Review of Anneke B. Mulder-Bakkers book about the spiritual biography of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg and Heilke of Staufenberg.

The article focuses on three womens monasteries in late medieval southwestern Germany. Berau, Sitzenkirch and Gutnau were subordinate cells of St. Blasien in the Black Forest, but varied considerably in size and legal status.

The article discusses their relations to the monks of St. Blasien and Bürgeln (a cell of St. Blasien) as well as the…[Read more]

The article discusses the Acta sancti Petri in Augia, a 13th century cartulary consisting of four books collecting charters, traditiones, chronicles and administrative sources from the monastery of Weißenau near Ravensburg in southwestern Germany. Particular emphasis is placed on the way this source remembers and writes about the history of the…[Read more]