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Thank you Holly for the audio version, love these! Insightful to learn that these women "being at the mercy" indeee doesn’t mean they were passive or insignificant but that some of them travelled and developed themselves through discovery and learning!

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I’m glad you enjoyed the audio Flo: it’s not something that comes naturally to me but I know some prefer to listen rather than read. And I’m also glad you enjoyed the post itself! I’m just hoping to nudge some of the narratives in a slightly different direction and get us thinking about alternative ways they could be viewed 🥰

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This is fascinating, and reminded me of my surprise on reading Femina and seeing the map of Margery Kempe's pilgrimage routes. Just went back and found the quote that accompanied it: "the medieval world was not a small, parochial one where everyone lived and died within view of their local church". Thank you for reminding me of this again!

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Ah yes indeed - the pilgrimages later on definitely opened up the world to women. And the ‘career’ (if we can call it that) of holy woman in particular allowed women to travel so so much.

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