Posted by
Desert Blue on Friday, August 08, 2008 9:18:40 PM
The beginning of an article, just to test ... had to edit it to get it past the language-bot!
The sainted religieuses of the Age of Faith, now the late pre-modern period,
were conspicuous for their loud piety, guided by confessors [and/or] hagiographers. Their ‘ecstasies’ read as distinctly sexual
to modern eyes, while the sexual hang-ups revealed by the Freudian therapy of
leading feminists of the twentieth century read as oddly clinical in contrast.