Katerina Lemmel

Katerina Lemmel, OSsS (née Imhoff; born 1466 in Nuremberg; died 28 March 1533 in Maihingen; also Katharina Lemmel or Katharina Lemlin) was a successful German patrician businesswoman in Nuremberg who became a Bridgettines nun at the monastery of Maria Mai in Maihingen in Nördlinger Ries. A collection of letters^[1] that she wrote from the monastery to her relatives in Nuremberg permits multifaceted insights into life in a late-medieval female monastery and into its system of spiritual economies.

^ Volker Schier, Corine Schleif, and Anne Simon (2019), Pepper for Prayer: The Correspondence of the Birgittine Nun Katerina Lemmel, 1516–1525, Edition and Translation, Stockholm: Runica et Mediaevalia. Corine Schleif and Volker Schier (2009), Katerina’s Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun, University Park: Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03369-3. Johann Kamann (1899-1000),“Briefe aus dem Brigittenkloster: Maihingen (Maria = Mai) im Ries 1516-1522,” Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte 6 (1899), 249-27, 385-410; 7 (1900), 170-99.

[1] Volker Schier, Corine Schleif, and Anne Simon (2019), Pepper for Prayer: The Correspondence of the Birgittine Nun Katerina Lemmel, 1516–1525, Edition and Translation, Stockholm: Runica et Mediaevalia. Corine Schleif and Volker Schier (2009), Katerina’s Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun, University Park: Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03369-3. Johann Kamann (1899-1000),“Briefe aus dem Brigittenkloster: Maihingen (Maria = Mai) im Ries 1516-1522,” Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte 6 (1899), 249-27, 385-410; 7 (1900), 170-99.

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