Beguines

They were called Beguines, and everywhere ministered to the sick and wounded of the armies of

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

Herbert Grundmann was one of the first to forefront religious women, especially Beguines and mendicant nuns, in the narrative of the transformation of European spirituality in the High Middle Ages.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Ziegler, Joanna E. Sculpture of Compassion: The Pietà and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1300 – c. 1600.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

An exhaustive study of these images in the context of later medieval Belgian Beguines can be found in Joanna E. Ziegler, Sculpture of Compassion: The Pietà and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1300 – c. 1600 (Brussels: Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 1992). back

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Very interesting to me, the thing about the Beguines; I have a strong interest in one of those women, the 13th-Century Marguerite Porete burned at the stake for heresy, of course.

Ergo Maris Stella, verbi dei cella bls 2009

Very interesting to me, the thing about the Beguines; I have a strong interest in one of those women, the 13th-Century Marguerite Porete burned at the stake for heresy, of course.

Archive 2009-10-01 bls 2009

Central Europe among the semi-religious lay com - munities of the Beguines and Beghards, and propagated by individuals travelling from city to city, and claiming to be divine.

HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

Much he gave to the Religious, and his dwelling-house and homestead lie bequeathed for ever to the poor Sisters, or Beguines, whom he had gathered together in that same place.

The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes �� Kempis Thomas

He was nineteen years of age, and sprung from an honourable stock, having good parents and friends at Zwolle: moreover, he had three sisters who were living the Religious Life as Beguines in the House of Wyron that lieth near the city without the northern gate.

The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes �� Kempis Thomas

Priest and Rector, and Confessor to the Beguines in the House of Master

The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes �� Kempis Thomas