Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 18385
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Hotchkiss , Valerie R.
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  • Title: Disguise and Despair: The Life of Hildegund von Schonau [The author discusses the clashes between the biography and hagiography of a transvestite Cistercian nun. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature.  Edited by Albrecht Classen.  Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.  Pages 29 - 41.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Cistercian Order Cross Dressing Hagiography Hildegund von Schönau, Cistercian Nun Monasticism Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 3874527689