In particular, medieval Jewish male mystics increasingly emphasized that the changing states of the female body between ritual purity and impurity disqualified women from the quest for mystical ...

“Spiritual Lives” introduces nuns, mystics and heretics ... to the sheer diversity of the lives and experiences of medieval women in England and beyond, from the quotidian to the sublime.

the more we can make women’s silence heard. Medieval female mystics and visionaries, including Mechthild of Hackeborn and Gertrude of Helfta, saw silence as a form of self-reflection ...