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Chargement... Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565par Walter Simons
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a really excellent work which pulls together the most recent scholarship on the beguines and dispels several long held historiographical myths about them. The beguines were members of lay religious communities which emerged in what is now Belgium in the early 13th century and flourished through the fourteenth century, characterised by their semi-monasticism, lack of formal vows, and desire to support themselves by their labours. Simons doesn't focus on the writings of the mystics which the movement produced, but rather looks at the beguines as a lay, female, urban movement. Readable and well-organised, Cities of Ladies manages to be both an introduction to the topic and a scholarly reference work (no easy feat to manage). Really, really interesting if you want to learn more about the only medieval religious movement created by and for women. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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