The "Imperial free secular foundation of Gandersheim" (Kaiserlich freie weltliche Reichsstift Gandersheim), as it was officially known from the 13th century to its dissolution in 1810, was a community of the unmarried daughters of the high nobility, leading a godly life but not under monastic vows, which is the meaning of the word "secular" in the title.
Sound familiar?
Gandersheim Abbey's most famous pupil is Hrosvit, or Hrosvitha, a tenth-century dramatist. Not quite Nora Ephron, but close.
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