Ecstasy in the Nunneries
Hildegard of Bingen was the most celebrated of the female mystics who experienced an intense sensual longing for Jesus Christ
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming up: Homer’s Psyche, The (French) Revolutionary Conscience and the Totalitarian Mind
MEDIEVAL NUNS had little spiritual or temporal power. They wer…
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