Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 by Walter Simons
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565

Walter Simons

Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565

Walter Simons

335 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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 labore...

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