A scholium on the previous post, "Mother Ship Meets Mother Church" —
"Consider Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174–1243), for example,
who is elegantly depicted in this catalogue, striking a pose
with her prayer book, rosary, and Virgin and child statue
(a reminder of the legitimacy of her sex), along with boots
slung over her elbow so she could walk barefoot like
the apostles. Between miracles, she was also known to
supervise construction of new convents. Hedwig is but
a snowflake on the iceberg of the extraordinary role of
actual women in the Middle Ages, to which more evidence
is added continually thanks the Feminae database."