Public lecture - "Early modern code-switching between Latin and the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated"

Join the public lecture by Prof Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford University), titled Early modern code-switching between Latin and the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated.

Lähnemann is a German medievalist working currently on the largest late-medieval group of letters by women, written and collected by the Benedictine nuns of the convent of Lüne, near Lüneburg. They convince, comfort, and argue in three distinct registers: learned Latin, accessible Low German, and their own fascinating sociolect combining the two, used for internal communication with other convents. This will be the basis for Lähnemann's talk and she is very much looking forward to comparing and contrasting the North German case with that of Old Frisian.

This public lecture is part of UG's Old Frisian Summer School.