This episode we aren't Meanwhile in Texas. I'm in grad school, taking a class on Medieval women so today, we're in the 13th century. This episode exploress Beatrice of Nazareth, a medieval Cistercian nun whose life and writing sit between outward monastic discipline and intensely interior spiritual experience. I talk through her Vita and The Seven Manners of Loving God, and how historians have tried to make sense of her as both a writer and a mystic.