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

202 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, around the year 1200. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and thus did not take solemn vows and did not live in monasteries. The beguines were a phenomenal movement ...

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