AJ Langley speaks to Lydia Shahan about the 13th-century mystic, poet, and holy woman Hadewijch. A woman of mystery, we talk about how little is known about her life, about paradox, about desire, and about the joy of rendering a category useless. 

Lydia Shahan is a second year PhD student in the Study of Religion at Harvard University. She looks are mysticism and devotional literature in the Low countries and Northern Europe. 

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