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Beach, Alison I., Women as scribes: book production and monastic reform in twelfth-century Bavaria, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Women as scribes: book production and monastic reform in twelfth-century Bavaria
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Cambridge University Press
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2004
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“Conclusion”
p.129: mentions Nedermünster “and its daughter house Mallersdorf, where the Irish nun Leukardis copied a number of books - all of which are now lost. [note 2:] [...] Mallersdorf was dependent upon Niedermünster from 1109 to 1129. The monastery joined the Hirsau reform in 1122; Mallersdorf was one of several monasteries that came under Irish (called Scottish at the time) influence during the twelfth century. Leukardis may have joined the community as a part of an influx of religious women and men from Ireland.”
Leukardis of MallersdorfLeukardis of Mallersdorf
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A 12th-century nun of Mallersdorf, a daughter-house of Niedermünster in Bavaria, who according to one late source, was of Irish origin (de gente Scotorum), knew four languages (Irish, Latin, Greek and German) and had a reputation as a scribe, so much so that the monk Laiupold recorded her anniversary.
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Mallersdorf abbey
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