Random Musings
Kathryn Hughes She is quite right to point out contradictions, and to blame Hetta Howes for presentism, whether that is the result of trade publishing or not. Dr. Fitzgerald was always on us about not using the word "feminist" to refer to medieval authors. At the time, I found that difficult to workaround (but they were !) but now that feminism has become synonymous with a lot of girlypop girlboss gatekeep gaslight nonsense I think it is better to highlight both discrepancies and what we would consider victories. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Small rebellions gave way to us being able to vote in 1919. I won't spit upon my mothers. I am, however, very sick of modern diagnoses for religious phenomena (says the girl who claims Catherine of Siena had an eating disorder, instead of arguing that she was truly sustained by Christ; I think both things are true. There is a poem about John the Baptist, very homoerotic, that says something like, he comes ...