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Gertrude of Poland

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Gertrude of Poland (perhaps also known as Olisava) was a late eleventh-century princess of Kyiv and a potential author of the Latin prayers in the prayer book prepared for her personal use.

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  1. Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Grzegorz Pac

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Pac, G. (2023). Gertrude of Poland. In: Sauer, M.M., Watt, D., McAvoy, L.H. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_85-1

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