Geybels, Hans
Vulgariter Beghinae

Eight Centuries of Beguine History in the Low Countries.

This synthetic study mainly examines monographs and from them tries to give an up-to-date status quaestionis. The main goal of this survey is to offer a well-supported synthesis, in contrast to the proliferation of different doubtful hypotheses on many subjects relating to the beguines, such as the origins of the movement, the etymology of the word ‘beguine’, the social status of the candidate beguines, the beguine mystics and the so-called revolutionary feminism of the first generations. 181 Seiten sowie 8 Farb- und 16 s/w-Tafeln, broschiert (Brepols Essays in European Culture; Vol. 4/Brepols 2004)