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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. Hathumoda, the daughter of a noble Saxon couple whose progeny would establish the first German empire, became abbess of a similar community of women when she was twelve years old.

Anchoress and Abbess in Ninthcentury Saxony The

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      Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
      Publication Date: 30/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9780813215693, 978-0813215693
      ISBN10: 0813215692
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      Book Synopsis
      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. Hathumoda, the daughter of a noble Saxon couple whose progeny would establish the first German empire, became abbess of a similar community of women when she was twelve years old.

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