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Queenship and Sanctity

The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid

by Sean Gilsdorf

  • Paperback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
  • 13.9 x 21.5 x 1.6 cm

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At the dawn of the second millennium, authors from monasteries in Burgundy and northern Germany recorded the lives and deaths of two powerful and pious women, Mathilda (d. 968) and Adelheid (d. 999). Both were extolled as saints, exemplary figures guided by God and witnessing to His grace. Unlike most other holy women, however, Mathilda and Adelheid were not ascetic nuns, but queens. They were deemed worthy of praise not only for their devotion to God and their lives of faith, but for integrating these traditional virtues with more "worldly" attributes: noble birth, royal marriage, political power and illustrious offspring. In turn, the saintly reputations of both women were used by their biographers to advance the interests not only of their own ecclesiastical communities, but of a new generation of secular rulers. This volume brings together in English the anonymous "Lives of Mathilda" and Odilo of Cluny's "Epitaph of Adelheid".With an introduction placing the texts and their subjects in historical and hagiographical context, it provides teachers and students with a crucial set of sources for the history of Europe (particularly Germany) in the 10th and 11th centuries, for the development of sacred biography and medieval notions of sanctity, and for the life of aristocratic and royal and royal women in the early Middle Ages. In addition, two appendices present contemporary accounts of Mathilda by the monk and historian Widukind of Corvey, and a survey of the evidence for Mathilda's ancestral ties to the legendary Saxon hero Widukind, whose defeat by Charlemagne in the late eighth century ultimately led to Saxony's assimilation into the Frankish church and kingdom.
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  • Author

    Sean Gilsdorf

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The Catholic University of America Press

  • Published

    July 2004

  • Edition

    annotated edition

  • Weight

    336g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    13.9 x 21.5 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813213743

  • ISBN-10

    0813213746

  • Eden Code

    1195274

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