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1.
Record Number:
5148
Author(s):
Hen, Yitzhak.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Milites Christi utriusque sexus: Gender and the Politics of Conversion in the Circle of Boniface [The author argues that Boniface gave nuns new roles in inculcating Christian ideas and values; the author cites the case study of Leoba who had direct interaction with the people she had come to teach].
Source:
Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999): Pages 17 - 31.
Year of Publication:
1999.
2.
Record Number:
7170
Author(s):
Lazzari, Loredana.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Regine, badesse, sante: il contributo della donna anglosassone all'evangelizzazione (secc. VII e VIII) [Anglo-Saxon women inherited a peacemaking role from their Germanic ancestors while adding a new responsibility for spreading the gospel. Well-born Anglo-Saxon nuns might become abbesses, even of double houses. Holy nuns feature prominently in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, and Aldhelm wrote on virginity for nuns. Later generations of nuns were more thoroughly subjected to male authority. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Studi Medievali , 39., 2 (Dicembre 1998): Pages 601 - 632.
Year of Publication:
1998.
3.
Record Number:
1940
Author(s):
Mayeski, Marie Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Let Women Not Despair: Rabanus Maurus on Women as Prophets [his commentary on women prophets is compared with the ideas of Thomas Aquinas].
Source:
Theological Studies , 58., 2 (June 1997): Pages 237 - 253.
Year of Publication:
1997.
4.
Record Number:
1105
Author(s):
Hyland, William Patrick.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Missionary Nuns and the Monastic Vocation in Anglo-Saxon England [nuns aided the missionary efforts of Boniface and his colleagues in Germany through their prayers and gifts; a few nuns, most notably Leoba, travelled to Germany, founded monasteries, and served as abbesses].
Source:
American Benedictine Review , 47., 2 (June 1996): Pages 141 - 174.
Year of Publication:
1996.
5.
Record Number:
922
Author(s):
Head, Pauline.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Integritas in Rudolph of Fulda's "Vita Leobae Abbatissae"
Source:
Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New Series , 13., 1 (July 1995): Pages 33 - 51.
Year of Publication:
1995.