Gender and Connectivity: Facilitating Religious Travel in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Courtney Luckhardt
Using gender as a lens, this article evaluates the nature of female networks religious connection and communication in early medieval period. The vitae three saints sixth seventh centuries, Radegund Poitiers, Brigid Kildare, Gertrude Nivelles, demonstrate way that women facilitated instigated contact through their relationships with others, especially men particularly kin. These allowed to play crucial role forming heterogeneous cultural connections across both long short distances methodology connectivity, which concept needs be engaged challenged, allows probing questions how why people communicated connected one another geographical imaginative boundaries.
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies