You expect podcasters to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Antarctica where I might get besmirched for being myself.
Love me some Bingen. I love turning students on to this odd woman out in the female visionary tradition the way my prof did for me. It's easy, though. Brilliant, hard working, polymath who managed to slip the Inquisition at a time when they specifically took aim at powerful women in the church
I did visionary women of the middle ages for my undergrad thesis. Started with a made up one from Stuart England (Mother Shipton) and worked backwards. Couldn't fit most of the rabbit hole that opened up...but that's what teaching is for, lol. No regrets, it's an amazing rabbit hole to fall down
It was a concerted push to disempower religious women leaders, many of which were visionaries. They had reason to be afraid, the rural powerhouse of monasteries & convents held more of hearts, bellies, and minds of the people than a largely corrupt, rich, urban bishopric.
Way back in the ancient times of the 1980’s there was an LP of Hildegard’s hymns entitled “A Feather on the Breath of God” Emma Kirkby and a group called Gothic Voices.
Sounds beautiful. In the early '90s, I purchased Visions and Canticles of Ecstasy from Amazon. I just checked, and they're still available, along with several other CDs of her extraordinary music. She created musical scales unheard of in her day.
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Free and Fair? Are you sure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmSXcHLjLE&t=834s
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
Continuing the theme of weird religious figures of the Mid Ages, I will recommend this small but deadly good book.
Peasant Fires https://search.app/5fqs6EBtzia5qFy59
I wish this amazing woman was better known.