Cities of Ladies : : Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 / / Walter Simons.

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• VerfasserIn: Simons, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 10 illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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