“Assumptions about the intrinsically ‘backward’ character of premodern religion not only leave the women of the past opaque to us but make the oppressions of our own time harder to see, too.” —an interview with Erin Maglaque
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What do Italian astronomers, cloistered nuns, levitating saints, and the “sexy dreams” of desert church fathers have in common? In the pages of the
