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 Bridgettine nun at the monastery of Maria Mai in Maihingen in the Nördlinger Ries. A collection of letters 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.

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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 Bridgettine nun at the monastery of Maria Mai in Maihingen in the Nördlinger Ries. A collection of letters 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.

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