Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565

by Walter Simons

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218531
• ISBN13: 9780812218534
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"