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Vita sanctae Aldegundis prima

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Anonymous vita of Aldegund, abbess of Maubeuge.

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[ed.] Krusch, Bruno, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (IV), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 6, Hanover, Leipzig, 1913.

Digital MGH: <link>

85–90 (text); 79–85 (introduction) Incomplete and ‘contaminated’ by variants from Hucbald's Vita of the saint.

[ed.] Ghesquière, Joseph Hippolyte, and Cornelius Smet, Acta sanctorum Belgii selecta, 6 vols, vol. 4, Brussels, Tongerlo: Lemaire, 1787.

315–324 (text); 308–315 (introduction) ‘ex editione Mabilloniona’.

[ed.] d'Achery, Luc, and Jean Mabillon, Acta sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, vol. 2: Saeculum II, Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum, apud Carolum Savreux, 1669.

Gallica: <link>

807–815

[tr.] McNamara, Jo Ann, John E. Halborg, and E. Gordon Whatley, Sainted women of the dark ages, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, 1992.

237–254 Based on the edition by Smet (1787).

Secondary sources (select)

Narrative sources from the medieval Low Countries, Online: Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis, 2009–present. URL: <https://narrative-sources.be>.

direct link

Helvetius, Anne-Marie, “Sainte Aldegonde et les origines du monastère de Maubeuge”, Revue du Nord 74 (1992): 221–237.