Power over past and future: Abbess Emma and the nunnery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses
Jonathan Jarrett
Abbess Emma of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, post-Visigothic Catalonia's first known nunnery, left a sufficient documentary record to permit in-depth study her method rule, which included taking comital brothers court for rights. Closer these acts suggests that rule was part family strategy, whose change by younger generation undo many efforts secure Joan's independence. Her not only aggressive territorial aggrandizement but the reshaping locality's history in way has endured until this day.
Early Medieval Europe