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Thank you We sneak Julian of norwich what's in anchorage

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A last meal and and chris was someone was a

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woman It could be an interest or in a right

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who had a kind of living death living just in

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a tiny room usually about fifteen feet square attached to

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a church So what happened would be like there would

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be wealthy people because they're family was basically in tao

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They're living this religious life but they were still more

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or less uneducated as most women were at the time

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These were like wealthy privileged girls the kinds of girls

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would you lead a good memories that kind of thing

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you know when they would come of age they would

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decide they want to live this kind of like mystical

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wisdom life and there would be a ceremony that was

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effectively marking their death would be a funeral rite of

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sorts and they would enter into this fifteen foot square

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room and they would never again leave it for the

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rest of their lives and actually there's like their stories

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about how you know there would be wars and people

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would come through and the anchor writes an anchor says

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would refuse to leave Because they would just be burned

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where they stood so there voluntarily walled up The only

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contact they have of the outside world is one window

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that's in looking at the church so they could like

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you know look at jesus and participate that way and

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then one little slot that's for like putting food in

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an excrement out right So that was it that was

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their whole lives So needless to say they went a

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little batty and they would have these visions And they

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were also known as being was extremely wise figures right

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As you can imagine they're like they're the crow and

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walled up like the top of the mountain Yeah that

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thing's So people would come to them for religious advice

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for spiritual advice on also just for for life advice

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That's really fascinating to me especially in the way that

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it's a call for forward virginia woolf in the idea

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and what a woman writer and waits is a room

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of her this's a room of your own but it

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sounds a little too restricted I think wolf is working

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at a more metal oracle sense where she thinks that

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women need space and freedom literal rooms but also a

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territory of their yeah it's also true that this was

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a kind of unique opportunity for women to totally be

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agents of their own lives right in no other context

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could a woman he provided for totally without having any

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responsibilities to the outside world which is part of what

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makes it a death right They're no longer a part

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of a family They're no longer eligible for marriage but

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they're also not serving the community They're just they're having

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their own personal religious experiences So julian records this in

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a book simple computing of norwich and it has crazy

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visions too What's in ankara sw What was life like

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for an anchorage I'd last about two seconds stuck in 00:02:49.004 --> [endTime] those rooms

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