books.google.com.au - In the uniquely urban atmosphere of the twelth and thirteenth centuries in Northern Italy, the conflict between the evolving commercially-based society and anti-commercial religious dogma created a need among the laity for new spiritual responses with which to justify their changing experience. The Humiliati...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Women_of_the_Humiliati.html?id=vhg8oW1Ka8MC&q=brother+houses&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWomen of the Humiliati