Cities of Ladies Simons Walter
Cities of Ladies Simons Walter Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of…
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Cities of Ladies Simons Walter
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These veritable single-sex cities offered lower- and middle-class women an alternative to both marriage and convent life. 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 Simons traces the transformation of informal clusters of single women to large beguinages.
Church authorities had also grown While the region's expanding urban economies initially valued the communities for their cheap labor supply, severe economic crises by the fourteenth century restricted women's opportunities for work.
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Cities of Signs
Atlas of Cities
Future of Cities
Art of Building Cities
Tale of Two Cities
History of Future Cities
Tale of Two Cities
Ways of Knowing Cities