In this episode we examine late medieval English mysticism as a context for the work of the famous anchorite Julian of Norwich, and discuss her remarkable response to the problem of why there is evil in the world.

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD

Catherine of Siena and Julian of Norwich

In this series of ten video lectures Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and King’s College London, discusses the contributions of women intellectuals, mystics, and philosophers in ancient Greece, ancient China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. From Diotima to Christine de Pizan, we learn about the ideas of female thinkers and also about the challenges they faced in putting forward these ideas.

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Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD