This comes as a request for answers rather than a suggested topic. A
Florentine lady requests that the list explain why it is commonly thought
that medieval theology claimed that women had no souls. Nor is she the first
Italian who has told me of this misconception. Where Roman men tell me of it
they don't query it, they assert it! So answers would be appreciated!
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Julia Bolton Holloway, [log in to unmask]
Hermit of the Holy Family
via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY
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And then God brought merrily to my mind David and other . . . Magdalen,
Peter and Paul, Thomas and Jude, how they are known in the Church on earth,
with their sins and it is to them no shame, but all is turned to worship.
Julian of Norwich, _Showings_, Paris Manuscript, fols. 68-68v.
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