A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval LifeDescribes the daily life of noblewomen, nuns, and peasants in feudal England and Europe, looks at the treatment of lepers, beggars, prostitutes, and criminals, and offers brief profiles of prominent medieval women. |
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Page 115
... Beguines The beguines were a very different , more open religious association of women which responded to the devotional needs of more than the upper class . They are a singularly difficult group to define , for the term was generally ...
... Beguines The beguines were a very different , more open religious association of women which responded to the devotional needs of more than the upper class . They are a singularly difficult group to define , for the term was generally ...
Page 117
... beguines to achieve acceptance . Unfortunately most beguines did not have the advantage of such a convinced and highly placed advocate to smooth their way among a suspicious hierarchy , nor did the movement have the unity or regularity ...
... beguines to achieve acceptance . Unfortunately most beguines did not have the advantage of such a convinced and highly placed advocate to smooth their way among a suspicious hierarchy , nor did the movement have the unity or regularity ...
Page 119
... beguines are no burden , even in the poorest houses where their only possession may be a bed and chest of clothes , because they work with their hands , not only earning a modest liveli- hood but also giving alms . They lived in ...
... beguines are no burden , even in the poorest houses where their only possession may be a bed and chest of clothes , because they work with their hands , not only earning a modest liveli- hood but also giving alms . They lived in ...
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abbess abbey abbot Abelard active Agnes Alice became beguines bishop Blanche Blanche of Castile British Library brother castle Cathars childbirth Christine de Pizan church Cistercian Clare clerical convent countess court crusade daughter death Dhuoda died early ecclesiastical Edward Eleanor Eleanor of Aquitaine Elizabeth emphasis encouraged England English female fifteenth century fourteenth century France French girls heir Héloïse Henry Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen hospital Hôtel-Dieu household husband important influence insisted Isabella Jeanne king king's lands later lepers lives livres Lollard London Louis Mahaut male manor Margery Margery Kempe Marguerite Marie marriage married medicine medieval medieval women Middle Ages mother mystics noble ladies nunnery nuns occasionally officials Paris peasant piety practical prioress prostitutes queen Radegund recluse recognised religious responsibility rich royal rule secular servants sick sisters social suggests thirteenth century trade trans treatise twelfth century widow wife wives woman wrote young