Into Kathryn’s mind popped yesterday’s experience of listening to Sophia’s strange, wordless sounds and the insights that she went onto reveal about a life in the medieval world, a life that led her to see things very differently indeed. ‘Is Sophia a mystic?’ Kathryn asked herself, the answer already firming in her head.
Despite the lunchtime bustle, Kathryn’s books were ready for collection and back with her at the reading table within fifteen minutes of her submitting the request. She picked the Malleus Maleficarum from the top of the pile. She read that the Latin title translated as ‘The Witches’ Hammer’ and pertained to the book’s original reason for publication as a handbook for witch hunters in the late Middle Ages. Written by two German Dominican friars, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob S
