Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050. By Steven Vanderputten. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 309 pp. $95.00 hardcover.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640719000714
Abstract: “First Saxon Capitulary,” which describes tithes and the exploitation of the vast mineral resources of the Harz Mountains. Charlemagne’s policy of central direction is misunderstood by Rembold (167–171) but is illustrated by the Vita Sturmi.… read more here.
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