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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Das mit dem weiblichen Volkskörper war ja schon im 19. Jh. beliebt (und auch damals schon Unsinn).

Gemälde "Die trauernde Germania" von 1850.

Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Secular canonesses (Stiftsdamen) are not nuns, strictly speaking, as they didn't take vows and could leave their religious house, but I liked how these #nuntastic ladies, dressed in gourgeeous 18th-century finery, step forward in their amazing classicist church in Bad Buchau / Upper Swabia.

Ceiling fresco from the church in Bad Buchau. To the left of a coat-of-arms, a group of the canonesses in rich 18th-century dress, to the right secular and ecclesiastical rulers.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We often read how nun musicians were meant to be heard but not seen - the proverbial "disembodied voices" . This is the organ gallery of the Premonstratensian monastery at Obermarchtal - clearly the monk musicians were hidden behind those elegant grilles! #monktabulous #nuntastic #music

The organ gallery of Obermarchtal in Swabia, built for the organ by Nikolaus Holzhay. There are grilles on the balustrade.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is how you do flags on lamp posts. Thank you, Oxford.

Flag on a lamp post showing 50 national mini-flags. Grey sky, path leading to the background.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I think the painting is strongly modelled on the death-of-Mary formula, and there you frequently have one or two apostles sitting beside the bed, reading books. (This is Austrian and 15th century, but same idea.)

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Some of these plays still hit home quite hard, such as the story of Abraham & Isaac. Centuries of sadnes about losing a child have been written into it.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Having fun at the Medieval Mystery plays at Teddy Hall, especially Hans Sachs' "Adam & Eve". @hlaehnemann.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Angels concert in the parish church St Vitus in Egling an der Paar / Bavaria.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Do you know the so-called "St Florian's principle"? "Good St Florian, spare my house, let others burn." Maybe, just maybe it's time for the #HE sector to stand together, rather than each university hoping for the failure of its "competitors"? #university

The UCAS end of cycle data for the 2024 cycle (UGs starting their courses this academic year) shows beyond doubt that high tariff providers scaled up their recruitment of home undergraduates, and it looks as if many lowered their entry tariffs in order to do so.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Farmers' protest in Oxford this morning. If farmers had protested as vigorously against #Brexit as they are now fighting the land inheritance tax, British farming - and the UK - would be in a better place now. #FarmersProtest

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

First time a work by a female composer is performed at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic: Constanze Geiger's Ferdinandwalzer. Nice piece by a woman with a very varied life! www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/geiger-const...

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you like unusual #Renaissance music, here is the latest recording by The Brabant Ensemble (dir. Stephen Rice), which charts the life of a monk through music. I researched the story as part of a bigger project on monastic music around 1600; they turned it into beautiful sounds. #earlymusic

Cover of the CD "A monk's life". Stained glass showinh a group of monks in white habits, c. 1520.

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