Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony
The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
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pp. vii-ix
This project began over a decade ago when I first wondered if Hathumoda, the founding abbess of Gandersheim, had died to the accompaniment of the medieval Latin death ritual that was just then taking shape in other religious communities in Western Europe. The answer turned out to be yes, but the description of the...
Abbreviations
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pp. xi-xii
Chronology
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pp. xiii-xv
The Families of Luitbirga and Gisla
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pp. xvi-
The Family of Hathumoda
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pp. xvii-
Map: The World of Liutbirga and Hathumoda
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pp. xviii-
Introduction
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pp. 1-79
This book is about two ninth-century women: Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim. Most of what we know about them is thanks to the fortuitous survival of the texts translated here. Without the Vita Liutbirgae (VL), the Vita Hathumodae (VH), and the poetic Dialogue that accompanies...
THE TRANSLATIONS
The Life of Liutbirga, Anchoress of Wendhausen
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pp. 83-117
1. In the reign of the great emperor Charles there was a certain Saxon, among the foremost and noblest of his people, named Hessi.1 [Now] Charles was the first in the German lands to gain the title of Caesar Augustus. He subjugated many peoples to the rule of the Franks and gained the support of (among many others) the...
The Life of Hathumoda, First Abbess of Gandersheim
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pp. 119-142
I am in no way up to the task of expressing at one and the same time how much I owe to your former spiritual mother and how much to your charity. Indeed, I am unable to put into words either the kind of charity you have been accustomed to show me or of what sort and how great were the benefits I received from her in...
The Dialogue of Agius on the Death of Hathumoda
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pp. 143-172
Bibliography
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pp. 173-186
General Index
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pp. 187-201
Index of Scriptural Citations
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pp. 203-204
E-ISBN-13: 9780813217147
Print-ISBN-13: 9780813215693
Page Count: 224
Publication Year: 2012
Series Title: Medieval texts in translation
