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Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 (Hardcover)
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Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 (Hardcover)
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Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by
the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major
cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres
suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent
role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities in Europe, much of
the story of these women - known variously as beguines, tertiaries,
klopjes, recluses, and anchoresses - remains to be told. Instead of
aspiring to live as traditional religious, they transcended
normative assumptions about religion and gender and had a very real
impact on their religious and secular worlds. The sources for their
tale are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. However,
careful scrutiny allows their voices to be heard. Drawing on an
array of sources including religious rules, sermons, hagiographic
vitae, and rapiaria, Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious
Identities traces the story of pious laywomen between the
thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It both emphasizes the
innovative roles of women who transcended established forms of
institutional religious life and reveals the ways in which
historiographical habits have obscured the dynamic and fluid nature
of their histories. By highlighting the development of irregular
and extraregular communities and tracing the threads of
monasticisation that wove their way around pious laywomen, this
book draws attention to the vibrant and dynamic culture of feminine
lay piety that persisted from the later middle ages onwards.
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