Queenship and Sanctity Victoria C. Hendrick Written in an engaging style

Written in an engaging style

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Queenship and Sanctity Victoria C. Hendrick Written in an engaging styleAt the dawn of the second millennium, authors from monasteries in Burgundy and northern Germany recorded the lives and deaths of two powerful and pious women, Mathilda (d. 968) and Adelheid (d. 999). Both were extolled as saints, exemplary figures guided by God and witnessing to His grace. Unlike most other holy women, however, Mathilda and Adelheid were not ascetic nuns, but queens. They were deemed worthy of praise not only for their devotion to God