Sainted women of the Dark Ages [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg, with E. Gordon Whatley.
Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contemporaries, and most translated here for the first time, these biographies cover the period from the fall...
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1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Genovefa, virgin of Paris (423-502)
- Clothild, queen of the Franks (d. 544)
- Monegund, widow and recluse of Tours (d. 570)
- Radegund, queen of the Franks and abbess of Poitiers (ca. 525-587)
- Eustadiola, widow of Bourges (594-684)
- Caesaria II, abbess of Saint Jean of Arles (ca. 550)
- Rusticula, abbess of Arles (ca. 556-632)
- Glodesind, abbess in Metz (ca. 600)
- Burgundofara, abbess of Faremoutiers (603-645)
- Sadalberga, abbess of Laon (ca. 605-670)
- Rictrude, abbess of Marchiennes (ca. 614-688)
- Gertrude, abbess of Nivelles (628-658)
- Aldegund, abbess of Maubeuge (d. ca. 684) ; Waldetrude, abbess of Mons (d. ca. 688)
- Balthild, queen of Neustria (d. ca. 680)
- Bertilla, abbess of Chelles (d. ca. 700)
- Anstrude, abbess of Laon (ca. 645, d. before 709)
- Austreberta, abbess of Pavilly (650-703)