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.
No idea. This paper was published in an pedagogical journal about the history of women's education. So, it's brief. I don't blame my students for choosing it...it's the first hit when you search medieval learning on JSTOR.
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But also...all the sources this person used are from like, 30 years before she wrote this article too.
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That’s so strange
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