[PDF.91rc] Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (The Middle Ages Series)

Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (The Middle Ages Series)

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 | #1257163 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2003-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.79 x5.98l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| An important book, if a somewhat limited look at a very interesting phenomenon.|By M. Dalton|The Beguines were a very important phenomenon in the history of Europe. Until pretty recently, they have received little attention in the English-speaking academic world, so this book is a welcome and sorely needed addition to the body of work on this subject, and I hope it is only t| ||"Comprehensive and authoritative."—Medium Aevum

|"This fine work reveals medieval religion as a web of overlapping interests. . . . Simons has thus both provided a detailed study of the movement in the Low Countries and place it in its

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002

In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives of contemplation and prayer and earned their livings as laborers or teachers.

In Cities of Ladies, the first history of the beguines to appear in English in fifty years, Walter Simons traces ...

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