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

Name: Cities of Ladies Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
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ISBN: 9780812218534

ISBN-10: 0812218531

ISBN-13: 9780812218534

Edition: 2002

Authors: Walter Simons, Ruth Mazo Karras

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In 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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.98" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English