04267nam 22007815 450 991045746590332120210114062321.01-283-21060-697866132106090-8122-0012-810.9783/9780812200126(CKB)2550000000050875(OCoLC)51478963(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491939(SSID)ssj0000122486(PQKBManifestationID)11135168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122486(PQKBWorkID)10123897(PQKB)10350300(SSID)ssj0000648560(PQKBManifestationID)12295830(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000648560(PQKBWorkID)10597472(PQKB)10826940(DE-B1597)448874(OCoLC)979970032(DE-B1597)9780812200126(MiAaPQ)EBC3441482(EXLCZ)99255000000005087520190708d2010 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrCities of Ladies Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 /Walter SimonsPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]©20021 online resource (352 p.) The Middle Ages SeriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-1853-1 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Preface -- 1. Women,Work, and Religion in the Southern Low Countries -- 2. The Formation of Beguinages -- 3. The Contemplative and the Active Life -- 4. The Social Composition of Beguine Communities -- 5. Conflict and Coexistence -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix I: Repertory of Beguine Communities -- Appendix II: The Population of Select Court Beguinages -- IndexSelected 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.RELIGIONbisacChristian Church / HistorybisacBeguinesHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Benelux countriesMonasticism and religious orders for womenHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Benelux countriesChurch historyReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCChristianityHILCCRELIGIONChristian Church / HistoryBeguinesHistoryMonasticism and religious orders for womenHistoryChurch historyReligionPhilosophy & ReligionChristianity274.92/05/082Simons Walter, 1043864DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910457465903321Cities of Ladies2469133UNINA02909nam 2200601Ia 450 991066512720332120200520144314.01-283-97018-X1-78042-982-7(CKB)2560000000082428(EBL)915135(OCoLC)793996010(SSID)ssj0000827496(PQKBManifestationID)12381947(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827496(PQKBWorkID)10838804(PQKB)10675304(Au-PeEL)EBL915135(CaPaEBR)ebr10622180(CaONFJC)MIL428268(MiAaPQ)EBC915135(PPN)198055633(EXLCZ)99256000000008242820120521d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaravaggio[electronic resource] /Felix WittingNew York Parkstone International20121 online resource (240 p.)TemporisDescription based upon print version of record.9781859955545 1-84484-554-0 Contents; Introduction; His Fate; The Early Years and Departure for Rome; Milan; Venice; Departure for Rome; The First Roman Works and the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi; The First Roman Works; The Paintings of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi; Condemned to Exile; Naples; Malta; The Face as a Reflection of the Soul; The Birth of a Style; The Painter of Pleasures and Taboos; Caravaggio or the Aesthetic Revolution; Caravaggio in a Different Light; The Life of Caravaggio by Giovanni Pietro Bellori; "Notizia" by Mancini; The Curriculum Vitae of a Criminal PainterLetter of 29th July 1610 from the Bishop of Caserte to Cardinal Scipione BorgheseConclusion; Bibliographical Notes; Biography; List of IllustrationsIt took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of modest means in 1571 near Milan. At the age of thirteen, he became an apprentice of the painter Simone Peterzano, who taught him artistic techniques and the use of colours. But he was attracted by Rome, with its fast pace of life and its loose morals. In 1597, he became the protégé to a noble cardinal who assisted him in securing important orders, suchTemporis collection.PaintersItalyPainters759759.5Witting Felixb. 1873.1171223Patrizi M. L675609MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910665127203321Caravaggio2725431UNINA