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The Wisdom of the Beguines - The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement (Paperback)
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The Wisdom of the Beguines - The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement (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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