LEADER 04267nam 22007815 450 001 9910457465903321 005 20210114062321.0 010 $a1-283-21060-6 010 $a9786613210609 010 $a0-8122-0012-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200126 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050875 035 $a(OCoLC)51478963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10123897 035 $a(PQKB)10350300 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000648560 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12295830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000648560 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10597472 035 $a(PQKB)10826940 035 $a(DE-B1597)448874 035 $a(OCoLC)979970032 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441482 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050875 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCities of Ladies $eBeguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 /$fWalter Simons 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2010] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1853-1 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations and Maps -- $tPreface -- $t1. Women,Work, and Religion in the Southern Low Countries -- $t2. The Formation of Beguinages -- $t3. The Contemplative and the Active Life -- $t4. The Social Composition of Beguine Communities -- $t5. Conflict and Coexistence -- $t6. Conclusion -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tAppendix I: Repertory of Beguine Communities -- $tAppendix II: The Population of Select Court Beguinages -- $tIndex 330 $aSelected 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. 606 $aRELIGION$2bisac 606 $aChristian Church / History$2bisac 606 $aBeguines$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500$zBenelux countries 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders for women$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500$zBenelux countries 606 $aChurch history 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aChristianity$2HILCC 615 7$aRELIGION 615 7$aChristian Church / History 615 0$aBeguines$xHistory 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders for women$xHistory 615 0$aChurch history 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aChristianity 676 $a274.92/05/082 700 $aSimons$b Walter, $01043864 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457465903321 996 $aCities of Ladies$92469133 997 $aUNINA