Hetta Howes

Dec 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Hetta Howes

POET, MYSTIC, WIDOW, WIFE: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women, by Hetta Howes"Do you not realize that Eve is you?"That scathing question was uttered by Tertullian, an early Christian theologian, around 200 C.E.His misogyny echoed down the centuries. In medieval Europe - that is, between the 5th and the 15th centuries - male authors pondered: Were women like Eve, or the Virgin Mary?

Oct 20, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Hetta Howes

All an act?

Sep 30, 2024 | bloomsbury.com | Hetta Howes |Sarah J. Maas |Jesmyn Ward |Gillian Anderson

I’ve always loved reading, but I didn’t come across medieval women’s writing until my second year of university. I remember being surprised that there were any female writers from the period at all (you almost never hear about them) and getting completely absorbed by their words. I spent hours trying to imagine what their lives might have been like. On the one hand, their world felt so different to my own, very far away, and strange.