Bill--
You know, I wasn't even thinking about poetry when I was referencing our Medieval Ladies-- I was thinking solely in terms of spiritual beliefs and bents. Thank you for completing the circle! Why are they important to me? They loved the Lord and were shameless about the things they did, said, wrote, prayed for in a time where the society around them would have had them feel much and varied shame. Also, they were interminable (as were, of course, many writers throughout the ages, saint or no) in their preaching that the body simply cannot be left out of Christian spirituality. God damn the body? No! God bless the body! And all that it can do, all that can be done to it, with it.
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