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