ISBN-13: 9783110296419 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2012 / 631 str.
ISBN-13: 9783110296419 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2012 / 631 str.
The study focuses on the abbesses in the oldest and most socially exclusive women's religious communities in lower Alsace. Drawing on prosopographic and network analytic methods, it examines the influence of origins as well as gender on the scope of action open to the abbesses.