Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-century Saxony Individual artists art monographs Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe

Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe

were separated by three thousand miles

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Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-century Saxony Individual artists art monographs Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipeAround the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the family's cloisters for religious women. She spent the last thirty years of her life in her cell, doing penance for her sins, fending off attacks by the devil, and instructing women in religion and handiwork through its one small window. Hathumoda, the daughter of a noble Saxon couple whose progeny would establish the