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1. Record Number: 24043
Author(s): Auslander, Diane Peters
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Title : Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint [The author analyzes a ninth century “vita” of Saint Darerca, a conversion-era abbess who subjected herself to extremely harsh ascetic practices. Auslander concentrates on the ways in which the hagiographer reconciled the strains of the solitary and the communal within Irish monastic life. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Pages 17 - 32.
Year of Publication: 2009.

2. Record Number: 10057
Author(s): Callan, Maeve B.
Contributor(s):
Title : St. Darerca and Her Sister Scholars: Women and Education in Medieval Ireland

Source: Gender and History , 15., 1 (April 2003): Pages 32 - 49.
Year of Publication: 2003.