Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim
(Part of the Medieval Texts in Translation Series)
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Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the family's cloisters for religious women. She spent the last thirty years of her life in her cell, doing penance for her sins, fending off attacks by the devil, and instructing women in religion and handiwork through its one small window. Hathumoda, the daughter of a noble Saxon couple whose progeny would establish the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813215692
ISBN13:9780813215693
Release Date:March 2009
Publisher:Catholic University of America Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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