Christina Hansadotter Brask, or ''Christin Hansadotter'' (1459 – 5 March 1520), was a Swedish writer and

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, and a member of the

Bridgettine Order The Bridgettines, or Birgittines, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Saviour (; abbreviated OSsS), is a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church founded by Saint Birgitta (Bridget of Sweden) in 1344 and approved by Pope Urban V ...

Vadstena Abbey 250px, Aerial view The Abbey Pax Mariae (), more commonly referred to as Vadstena Abbey, is situated on Lake Vättern in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm and is a monastery of nuns within the Bridgettine Order. It was active from 134 ...

Biography

Christina Hansadotter became a

nun A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 5 ...

at Vadstena Abbey in 1473. Many nuns were active in translating and copying books, and she also became a writer. She co-wrote the book ''Gudelika Snillis Väckiare'' with her colleague Kadrin or Katarina (d. 1519), which was published in the early 16th century, making them the perhaps first female book writers of their country. Kadrin wrote the first half of the book, and Christina the second half. Christina is also identified as the translator of ''Antiphonarium'' for the Abbess

Margareta Clausdotter Margareta Clausdotter (died 10 December 1486) was a Swedish writer and genealogist, a Roman Catholic nun of the Bridgettine order and from 1473 until her death, abbess of the Vadstena Abbey. Christina Brask translated the Antiphonary, Antiphona ...

, and as the author of ''Speculum Virginum'' and ''Christina Hansdotters bönbok''.

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"Svenska kyrkans sköna litteratur: eller, Den svensk-kyrkliga litteraturen bedömd med särskildt ..."
*Berömda nunnor i Vadstenas historia i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)

* ttps://archive.org/stream/historisktbibli00unkngoog/historisktbibli00unkngoog_djvu.txt Historiskt bibliotek utgifvet af Carl Silfverstolpe
Vadstena klosters minnesbok [microform] Diarium vazstenense (1918)
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