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Episode 5: Hermits and Anchoresses
Ask a Medievalist
English - May 14, 2020 15:03 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary Em and Jesse begin a journey into the world of Medieval mysticism with a discussion of hermits and anchorites/anchoresses. With some interesting discussions of cats, Michel Foucault, Plato, and Siddhartha Gautama. Annotations, Notes, and Corrections 0/ There are some sound issues in this episode–I (Em) recorded in what sounds like a cave, and Jesse’s …