Medieval Women: Mystics and Nuns (Replay)
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Replay Episode — Originally Aired 7 January 2025
This episode was one of our most-loved conversations of the year, and we’re excited to bring it back for anyone who missed it—or wants to experience it again.
Gemma Hollman returns to the podcast for a captivating deep dive into the remarkable lives of medieval mystics and nuns. Together, we explore the spiritual, cultural, and intellectual impact of these extraordinary women who helped shape religious life throughout the Middle Ages.
From intense visionary experiences to the layered realities of cloistered existence, this replay goes beyond the surface to illuminate their devotion, agency, and enduring influence. It’s a journey into a world where faith, power, and identity intertwined in surprising ways.
Don’t miss this listener-favorite conversation!
Gemma’s Book: Women in the Middle Ages
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Credits:
Host: Rebecca LarsonGuest: Gemma Hollman
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| 0:33.3 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:37.3 | And today I'm very pleased to welcome back to the show again, Gemma Holman. Gemma, welcome back. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you very much for having me back. Well, after the last time you were on and we spoke about women in the Middle Ages, your new book that came out, we just kind of, I think we both realized there was a lot more that we could talk about. |
| 0:55.1 | Definitely. It's an endless topic and something that we both enjoy talking about, so we could have |
| 0:59.7 | gone on for hours. Well, that's just the thing, right? Anytime you have a book, which is such a huge |
| 1:05.2 | subject matter that you're covering, there's just so much to go over. And today we're going to put a little bit more |
| 1:11.8 | focus on nuns and mystics in the Middle Ages. So this was, we talked about this a little bit, |
| 1:21.3 | but this was the subject matter that you were really keen to talk about today. So why don't we |
| 1:26.4 | start there? Like Like what was it about |
| 1:28.4 | these specific segments of your book that just drew you to it? Yeah, I think it was a mix of things, |
| 1:37.3 | really, where I have previously written a lot of royal history. That's kind of more my |
| 1:43.8 | specialist area. And it's an area that gets a lot of royal history. That's kind of more my specialist area, |
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