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245 10 a| Cities of Ladiesh| [electronic resource]:b| Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565;

260 a| Philadelphia : b| University of Pennsylvania Press;

300 a| 352 p.b| illc| 09.250 x 06.125 in.;

440 4 a| The Middle Ages Ser.;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002In 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.InCities 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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650 4 a| Monasticism And Religious Orders For Women;

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

Author/creator	Simons, Walter, 1956- Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Description	352 p. ill 09.250 x 06.125 in.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Beguines Monasticism And Religious Orders For Women Monasticism And Religious Orders--Middle Ages, 600-1500. Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Series	The Middle Ages Ser.
Summary	Annotation Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002In 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.InCities 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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9780812218534
ISBN	0812218531 (Trade Paper) Active Record
Stock number	00027359

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