The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement by Laura Swan

The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement

Laura Swan

208 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history religion informative slow-paced
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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 or...

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