History

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.

This study is the first to explore the striking intimacy of the early correspondence between Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Fronto (second century AD) as a literary production. Wytse Keulen presents Fronto's letter collection as a self-edited literary monument that brings his most important friendship to life with an emphasis on public appeal.

Through the analysis of twenty Easter sermons from the late Enlightenment period, Maike Peyrer explores how the resurrection of Jesus was preached in an era marked by the struggle to define the relationship between reason and revelation, and in which belief in miracles - such as the resurrection of Jesus - was increasingly questioned.