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

by Hathumoda, Saint Liutbirg, Frederick S. Paxton

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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"