Cities of Ladies : : Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 / / Walter Simons.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn 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...
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Simons, Walter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cities of Ladies : Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 / Walter Simons. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010] ©2002 1 online resource (352 p.) : 10 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Preface -- 1. Women,Work, and Religion in the Southern Low Countries -- 2. The Formation of Beguinages -- 3. The Contemplative and the Active Life -- 4. The Social Composition of Beguine Communities -- 5. Conflict and Coexistence -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix I: Repertory of Beguine Communities -- Appendix II: The Population of Select Court Beguinages -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn 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 the transformation of informal clusters of single women to large beguinages. These veritable single-sex cities offered lower- and middle-class women an alternative to both marriage and convent life. While the region's expanding urban economies initially valued the communities for their cheap labor supply, severe economic crises by the fourteenth century restricted women's opportunities for work. Church authorities had also grown less tolerant of religious experimentation, hailing as subversive some aspects of beguine mysticism. To Simons, however, such accusations of heresy against the beguines were largely generated from a profound anxiety about their intellectual ambitions and their claims to a chaste life outside the cloister. Under ecclesiastical and economic pressure, beguine communities dwindled in size and influence, surviving only by adopting a posture of restraint and submission to church authorities. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Beguines Benelux countries History. Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500. Monasticism and religious orders for women Benelux countries History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Religious Studies. HISTORY / Medieval. bisacsh Gender Studies. History. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Women's Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History 9783110413472 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812218534 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200126 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200126 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812200126/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Preface -- 1. Women,Work, and Religion in the Southern Low Countries -- 2. The Formation of Beguinages -- 3. The Contemplative and the Active Life -- 4. The Social Composition of Beguine Communities -- 5. Conflict and Coexistence -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix I: Repertory of Beguine Communities -- Appendix II: The Population of Select Court Beguinages -- Index |
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