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

352 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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