BATHILDIS: THE QUEEN’S TWO STORIES

Abstract

The article presents an introduction to a publication of a Russian translation of the Vita St. Balthildis, a Life of one of a few canon-ized royal spouses, a Frankish Queen Bathildis. The publication is based on the second, enlarged version of the Vita, compiled in the 9th century by an anonymous Carolingian hagiographer.