The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim
Aidan Conti
The English nun Hugeburc of Heidenheim wrote lives two kinsmen, Willibald and Wynnebald, became the only female hagiographer Carolingian period. Hugeburc’s work represents an important milestone for construction institutional memory in a region undergoing Christianization. While writing hagiography can be seen as feminist act, power structures world views inscribed these works conform to dominant ideologies Christianization process. To assess cultural texts perform, this chapter looks beyond quality Latin better understand hierarchies that construct, revealing while activities challenge discursive arena is almost exclusively male, her writings uphold patriarchal Christian view.
Amsterdam University Press eBooks