Two towering mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are the Benedictine Abbess Hildegard of Bingen and the Beguine poet Hadewijch of Brabant. Â Each in their own way epitomizes the flowering of female mysticism that flourished in the High Middle Ages. Â In Hildegard we encounter the God-saturated prophet, visionary, and reformer. Â In Hadewijch we encounter […]
