2024-09-17 15:54:22
Plato said that whoever invented beer was a wise man. It was wrong. In fact, it was a woman. A wise man, yes, but a woman.
Not only are women responsible for the discovery, but their contributions throughout the history of beer have been crucial to the development of the drink, and to building the cultural concept of how we use it today.
The book The Philosophy of Beer gives an interesting history of one of the most consumed drinks in the world, whose production goes back thousands of years. But it began to undergo a process of popularity throughout the world from the end of the Middle Ages, when it was produced in the monasteries of Europe and when it was carried by ships looking for new commercial leases.
But what, in fact, is the origin of beer?
Just over 7,000 years ago, brewing began to develop in Mesopotamia; They were women who mixed grains with water and herbs to make a drink for nutritional purposes.
They cooked the mixture and, from this intuitive mixture, to alleviate hunger, a broth spontaneously fermented.
They soon began to develop their skills around this cloudy, thick, but very nourishing liquid, which was also able to illuminate the spirit.
Since then and for hundreds of years, their level of knowledge has meant that only women are able to produce it and also sell it. They were responsible for its production and marketing. They were still responsible and owned the licenses and equipment to produce it.
And so it was until the Middle Ages, when in Europe licenses forwarded to husbands’ names.
The legal change in the license may have had something to do with the fact that, at that time, beer was a very valuable commodity and, although it was brewed for home consumption, the surplus was sold to provide additional family income. get. So they continued to work, but the product was no longer with them. And neither was the money he made.
However, despite this clerical monopoly, a woman invented beer as we know it today.
In the Middle Ages there was a significant change in brewing when hops were planted, a close relative of cannabis, whose flowers have a distinctive bitterness and preservative properties for the drink that allow it to be stored for much longer.
Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the female version of Leonardo da Vinci, was responsible for the discovery that sparked this radical change in brewing.
This good woman, who combined her role as brewmaster with theology, writer, music composer and botanist (in her work Physica, she described more than 200 plants), among other skills, ended up being canonized by the Catholic Church. Although it took twelve hundred years.
In 2011, Pope Benedict added Hildegard to the catalog of Catholic saints, and a year later named her “the fourth Doctor of the Catholic Church”, after Saint Teresa, Saint Catherine and Saint Teresa of Lisieux.
Saint who described an orgasm
In addition to her significant contribution to beer, this nun bequeathed to us another pleasant “discovery”: the first written description of a female orgasm.
Unlike the writers of the time, such as her contemporary Constantine of Africa, who described in his Liber de coitu all kinds of sexual pleasure without mentioning women, Hildegard was the first person who dared to declare that pleasure was not related to the work of Satan, who lived in. the brain and that women felt it too.
In the Book of Disease Cases and Remedies, the charismatic abbess Binguen wrote that sex was not the result of sin and that sexual pleasure was a matter for two, and described the moment of climax and ejaculation of a couple in no uncertain terms:
As soon as the storm of passion arises in a man, he is thrown into it like a millstone. His sexual organs are then, as it were, the forge to which the marrow gives its fire. This forge then transmits the fire to the male genitalia and causes them to burn powerfully.
And your partner is far from an insensitive vessel:
When the woman unites with the man, the heat from the woman’s brain, which makes him happy, gives him the pleasure of the union and provides his semen. And when the semen falls into place, this very strong heat of the brain draws it and keeps it to itself, and immediately the kidney of the woman contracts and closes all the limbs which, during menstruation, are ready to open, just as a strong man. there is something in his hand.
This medicinal remedy was published twelve years ago. The truth is, for that reason alone, she deserves to be a saint.
By Manuel Peinado Lorca*
*Manuel Peinado Lorca is emeritus professor of Life Sciences and director of the Royal Botanical Garden at the University of Alcalá (Spain)
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