SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2924

[Jenne Heise]

> My recollection of reading about the life and impact of Hildegarde 
>  on socio-politcal atmospheres suggets that she was not in the center of
>what you might call the mainstream.  She often wrote about things that
>were considered hgeretical or pagan.  Not that they are to be discounted,
>but further exploration would be suggested to determine what faction of
>the culture she is describing was using these items and to what degree
>they generalized. 12th century Germany wasn't all that kind to a woman
>who sang in the churches and wrote about herbal healing of the tribal
>'barbarians' as well as spoke out to raise visibility of women in a very
>male dominated time, so one may need dig deeply to find how it all fits
>together.

I think I failed to follow this, because it sounds like you mean that
either Hildegarde hopped beer because she was a feminist or that only
feminist mystics in a single small German town hopped their beer.
(Actually, Hildegarde was _against_ consuming hops, which makes the case
that beer was hopped because she mentions it, much better than the case
that, for instance, ships towed their beef behind them in the seawater
because Plat advocates it.)

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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