- A
canoness is a
member of a
religious community of women,
historically a
stable community dedicated to the
celebration of the
Liturgy of the
Hours in a...
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Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973) was a
secular canoness who
wrote drama and
Christian poetry under the
Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad
Gandersheim to Saxon...
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Louise one of its
endowed prebends.
Although technically Louise was a
secular canoness (a type of
religious life with no vows), she was not a nun so she was...
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February 1725 – 4 June 1782) was a
Hessian princess who
lived as a
secular canoness before becoming a
coadjutor princess-abbess of
Herford Abbey. Princess...
- (Chapter of the
Noble Ladies of Poussay),
where she was
raised as a
secular canoness among other daughters of the
local nobility. In 1662,
Charles IV, the...
- 23
January 1808 in Altona) was a
German aristocrat who
lived as a
secular canoness and
ruled as the last Princess-abbess of
Herford Abbey. Friederike...
- Rotselaar,
Belgium Skegness,
United Kingdom Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973),
secular canoness who
wrote drama and
Christian poetry Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), field...
- rule gave rise to two types: the
canoness regular,
taking the
traditional religious vows, and the
secular canoness, who did not take vows and thus remained...
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martyrdom is the
subject of a 10th-century
medieval Latin drama by the
secular canoness,
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim. The
island of
Santorini is
named after...
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signified mounting hatred for the government. Hrotsvitha, a
German secular canoness, was born
about 935 and died
about 973. Her work is
still seen as important...
