‘Against the Custom’: Hagiographical Rewriting and Female Abbatial Leadership at Mid-Eleventh-Century Remiremont
Steven Vanderputten
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential a recently identified campaign hagiographic writing from mid-eleventh-century monastery Remiremont reconstruct how female convent positioned itself at time when clerical resistance lifestyle and autonomy non-Benedictine communities was gaining momentum. In first stage it looks three hagiographies they reveal cohesive strategy drastically review abbey’s narrative origins. second reconstructs their argument fits into Abbess Oda’s (before 1045-1065/70) governance that influenced by historical leadership choices nearby male houses Luxeuil Lure. And in final one considers memories abbatial agency discourses communal identity ninth- tenth-century Remiremont, these abbess her associates. doing all things, study reveals deployed multi-faceted secure Remiremont’s independence, taking ownership its critical juncture existence.
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