Baudonivia

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Baudonivia lived in the 6./7. Century in the Ste-Croix Abbey in Poitiers , the first women's monastery in Europe, which was founded in 558 by Radegundis , who died there in 587. Baudonivia was a hagiographer and prioress of the monastery.

Baudonivia is known for her vita of Queen Radegundis, the liber secundus , one of the oldest surviving biographies of saints written by a woman. Her vita, which appeared between 609 and 614, after the death of the bishop of Poitiers Venantius Fortunatus , who wrote a vita shortly after the death of Radegundis, the liber primus , represents a correction to this vita that was already published, also in the Baudonivia Refers to the Vita of Fortunatus, and in which Radegundis is described with clearly different accents. While Fortunatus, who was known to Radegundis and the abbess Agnes of Poitiers and who valued both of them, does not describe Radegundis as the founder of a monastery and miraculous nun in his Vita, Baudonivia puts her in this context.

Modern reception

Judy Chicago dedicated an inscription to Baudonivia on the triangular floor tiles of the Heritage Floor of her installation The Dinner Party . The porcelain tiles labeled with the name Baudonivia are assigned to the place with the place setting for Hrotsvit .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Margarete Zimmermann: Salon of the authors: French dames de lettres from the Middle Ages to the 17th century . Erich Schmidt Verlag & Co KG, 2005, ISBN 978-3-503-07957-5 , p. 48 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg: Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, Ca. 500-1100 . University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-226-74054-6 , pp. 45 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ Brooklyn Museum: Baudonivia. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Baudonivia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prioress of Ste-Croix Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century
DATE OF DEATH 7th century