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Lena Vosding is a Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Late Medieval women’s convents, exploring their corporate identity, religious self-definition, and societal engagement through textual and manuscript analysis. She examines how pre-modern women’s communities navigated patriarchal structures while shaping their own visions of life.
Her work centers on the ars dictaminis (medieval letter-writing art), analyzing letters from Benedictine nuns’ convents like Lüne (Germany). She co-leads a hybrid digital edition project (The nuns' network) translating three letter books. Additionally, she engages in codicology, textual criticism, and advocates for broader accessibility of under-researched medieval manuscripts.
Vosding is a founding member of the German ‘Netzwerk Historische Grundwissenschaften’ (AHIGW Junior Network), promoting interdisciplinary historical scholarship. Her research bridges pre-modern communication studies with contemporary social discourse analysis.
Awards:
- Gerda Henkel Research Fellowship
Projects & Collaborations:
- Hybrid edition of Lüne convent letter books
- Advocacy for Digital Humanities methodologies in historical research
