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Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim

translated by Frederick S. Paxton
Catholic University of America Press, 2009
Paper: 978-0-8132-1569-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1714-7
Library of Congress Classification BX4667.A53 2009

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In the growing field of early medieval texts in translation, this book presents the first full English translations of the Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen, the first anchoress in Saxony, and Hathumoda, the first abbess of Gandersheim.