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Cities of Ladies

- Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
Af: Walter Simons Engelsk Paperback

Cities of Ladies

- Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
Af: Walter Simons Engelsk Paperback
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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 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.

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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 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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812218534
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0812218531
Kategori: Religiøse samfund og munkeordener
Udg. Dato: 27 feb 2003
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 27 feb 2003
Forfatter(e): Walter Simons
Forfatter(e) Walter Simons

Kategori Religiøse samfund og munkeordener

ISBN-13 9780812218534

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 27 feb 2003

Oplagsdato 27 feb 2003

Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press

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