Medieval mystics

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Medieval historian Hetta Howes reveals the extreme lengths to which women in the Middle Ages went to get closer to God and discusses how mystics were perceived by their contemporaries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:54.1	One of the horrible things that she ends up doing is drinking the bath water of one of the lepers in her care. And she describes her, well, her biographer describes how she felt one of the scabs lodged in her throat
2:01.1	and that catapulted her into a sort of ecstatic vision.
2:04.7	That was Heta Howells discussing medieval mysticism.
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