
Medieval mystics
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The Relationship Between Fluids and Mysticism
An anchoress was someone who decided to live a life and closed literally so there were sort of little structures built on the sides of churches. Marjorie Kemp famously went to visit Julian of Norwich to try and get her validation because she knew that Julian was very well respected, said yes I believe in Marjorie that would mean a lot. There's actually been a really nice play put on this in the last couple of years which imagines that meeting between Julian of Norwich and MarJorie Kemp and how it might have gone as they're both very different characters in their writing.
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