There is no citation, and no specific examples. The abbesses the author talks about in her paper were all likely to be older when they became abbess so I am wondering where this idea came from.
Hey #medievaltwitter, I have encountered a strange statistic in a 40 year old paper, and a student of mine was asking about it because she questioned it too. It says that "The most scholarly nuns became abbesses, often at the early ages of 12 to 14." I am suspect of this.
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