Female Abbatial Leadership and the Shaping of Communal Identity in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Life of Hathumoda of Gandersheim
By looking at the Life of Hathumoda, a ninth-century biographical account of the first abbess of the female monastery of Gandersheim in Saxony (d. 874), this article examines how women religious in ninth-century Saxony made use of normative legacies to create their own corporate identity through whi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
[2018]
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The journal of medieval monastic studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Pages: 21-45 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBB German language area KCA Monasticism; religious orders RB Church office; congregation |
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