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Okay. ARE female hermits rare? My impression is that it's much harder for
a woman to be a hermit than it is for a man (defining "hermit" as somebody
who lives, usually alone, in some sort of "wild" environment), although
they can be recluses (enclosed permanently in a small cell, usually
attached to a religious community or church) without difficulty. My
impression is based on the rarity of female hermits in the Egyptian desert,
and on the fact that in my own research on tenth- and eleventh-century
Germany I've found plenty of female recluses, plenty of male recluses AND
hermits, but not a single female hermit. Is the situation different in
different eras?
Phyllis
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>Why do you say female hermits are rare?
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>Maddy
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