The confessional era in the nunneries of Upper Lusatia. The crisis and the restoration of the monastic life in the bi-confessional Upper Lusatia

Abstract

The paper deals with difficult inner conditions in the Upper Lusatian nunneries (St. Marienstern, St.

Marienthal and Lauban) in the 16th and 17th centuries, in the time of reformation and confessionalisation, focusing on their abbesses.

Keywords

• confessionalisation
• reformation
• Lauban
• St. Marienstern
• St. Marienthal
• abbesses
• crisis and restoration