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ISBN10: 2503551351, ISBN13: 9782503551357, [publisher: Brepols Publishers] Hardcover 235 pages. Chapters: Beginnings: Naming Beguines in the Southern Low Countries, 1200-1250; From case studies to comparative models: Wurzburg Beguines and Vienne Decrees; When is a Beguine not a Beguine? Names, norms and nuance in canonical literature; Dangerous heretics or silly fools?; On being a Beguine in France, c. 1300; 'Love is Beguine': Labelling lay religiosity in 13th-century Paris; Merging into clergy: Beguine self-promotion in Cologne in the 13th and 14th centuries; Beguines and the Devotio Moderna at the turn of the 15th-century. [Wolfville, NS, Canada] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 2503551351, ISBN13: 9782503551357, [publisher: Brepols N.V., Turnhout] Hardcover Hardcover. This volume investigates the diverse meanings assigned to and adopted by lay religious women in northern Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. While many outstanding studies have unearthed the local or regional significance of such women, little comparative or transregional scholarship exists to date. Moreover, traditional emphasis on medieval ecclesiastical condemnation of beguines has obscured the extent to which their communities were intertwined with supportive local social structures. Exploring the multiplicity of contemporary perspectives in the Belgian, Dutch, French, and German contexts over time, the volume traces not only the women's relationships to various authorities and institutions, but also the specific terms used to represent and respond to 'beguines'. Illuminating the kaleidoscopic ways in which medieval people categorized, described, and engaged with such women, the collected essays also underscore the extent to which simple dualities of 'clerical' and 'lay', 'elite' and 'popular', and 'orthodox' and 'heretical' are insufficient constructs with which to map intersections of medieval gender, lay religiosity, and society. In doing so, they propose new avenues and coordinates for exploring the sociospiritual topography of medieval Europe. Shipping may be from our ...
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