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The Wisdom of the Beguines

- The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement
Af: Laura Swan Engelsk Paperback

The Wisdom of the Beguines

- The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement
Af: Laura Swan Engelsk Paperback
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The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living independently, and they were never a religious order or a formalized movement. But there were common elements that these medieval women shared across Europe, including their visionary spirituality, their unusual business acumen, and their courageous commitment to the poor and sick. Beguines were essentially self-defined, in opposition to the many attempts to control and define them. They lived by themselves or in communities called beguinages, which could be single homes for just a few women or, as in Brugge, Brussels, and Amsterdam, walled-in rows of houses where hundreds of beguines lived together—a village of women within a medieval town or city.

Among the beguines were celebrated spiritual writers and mystics, including Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrijs of Nazareth, Hadewijch, and Marguerite Porete—who was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake in Paris in 1310. She was not the only beguine suspected of heresy, and often politics were the driving force behind such charges.

The beguines, across the centuries, have left us a great legacy. They invite us to listen to their voices, to seek out their wisdom, to discover them anew.
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The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living independently, and they were never a religious order or a formalized movement. But there were common elements that these medieval women shared across Europe, including their visionary spirituality, their unusual business acumen, and their courageous commitment to the poor and sick. Beguines were essentially self-defined, in opposition to the many attempts to control and define them. They lived by themselves or in communities called beguinages, which could be single homes for just a few women or, as in Brugge, Brussels, and Amsterdam, walled-in rows of houses where hundreds of beguines lived together—a village of women within a medieval town or city.

Among the beguines were celebrated spiritual writers and mystics, including Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrijs of Nazareth, Hadewijch, and Marguerite Porete—who was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake in Paris in 1310. She was not the only beguine suspected of heresy, and often politics were the driving force behind such charges.

The beguines, across the centuries, have left us a great legacy. They invite us to listen to their voices, to seek out their wisdom, to discover them anew.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781629190082
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 162919008X
Kategori: Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger
Udg. Dato: 30 jun 2016
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 211mm
Højde: 141mm
Forlag: BlueBridge
Oplagsdato: 30 jun 2016
Forfatter(e): Laura Swan
Forfatter(e) Laura Swan

Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger

ISBN-13 9781629190082

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 211mm

Højde 141mm

Udg. Dato 30 jun 2016

Oplagsdato 30 jun 2016

Forlag BlueBridge