searching for women's lives around the margins of the scholarship, methods for organizing research, and three opportunities to write together this spring
Several years ago I was reading an article about Hildegard of Bingen, and it mentioned that she might have been enclosed with an anchoress as a child. This led me to look up what the heck an anchoress is, the logistics of life enclosed in a cell, why someone (especially a woman, especially around the time Hildegard lived) would choose such a life…and now my novel about a medieval girl enclosed with an anchoress, and the present-day professor studying them, will publish in November! All because I stumbled on a random factoid in a random article (and, a factoid that may not even be true!)
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Several years ago I was reading an article about Hildegard of Bingen, and it mentioned that she might have been enclosed with an anchoress as a child. This led me to look up what the heck an anchoress is, the logistics of life enclosed in a cell, why someone (especially a woman, especially around the time Hildegard lived) would choose such a life…and now my novel about a medieval girl enclosed with an anchoress, and the present-day professor studying them, will publish in November! All because I stumbled on a random factoid in a random article (and, a factoid that may not even be true!)
Thank you for the shout out!