The Beguines (/beɪˈɡiːnz, ˈbɛɡiːnz/) and the Beghards (/ˈbɛɡərdz, bəˈɡɑːrdz/) were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Western Europe,...

Voorburgwal, the Spui and the Begijnensloot or "Beguines' Ditch"), with the sole entrance located at the Begijnensteeg ("Beguines' Alley"), which had a...

However, men in this movement were not known as beguines, but rather, they had called themselves beghards. Every piece of information we have about Hadewijch...

Franciscans, allowing abbots to decide how to interpret their Rule. The Beguines and Beghards of Germany were condemned as heretics, while the council forbade...

applied to the various unregulated religious groups such as the Beguines and Beghards, who had greatly increased in number in the preceding decades. Concerns...

Begginarum et Beggardorum fundatricis vetus (Louvain, 1631) McDonnell, Beguines and Beghards, pp. 179, n. 51, & 430-31 Andenne History of Andenne, Belgium Attwater...

and outside monastic life. Vows of chastity can be taken either as part of an organised religious life (such as Roman Catholic Beguines and Beghards in...

created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world. Originally the beguine institution was...

Roman church during the 5th century. Agonoclita Apostolic Brethren Beguines and Beghards Bogomilism Patarines Bosnian Church Brethren of the Free Spirit...

Oosten (d.1358) Gerard Appelmans (13th c) The Ancrene Rule (13th c) Beguines and Beghards (13th c) Richard Rolle (c.1300-49) Johannes Tauler (c.1300-1361)...

Penance and were not specifically called a third order until after papal recognition in 1405. Many held that the condemnation passed on the Beguines and Beghards...

the twelfth and thirteenth-century Brethren of the Free Spirit, Beguines and Beghards were all accused of holding beliefs with similarities to those condemned...

Ploughshares Anabaptism, in particular the emerging peace church movement Beguines and Beghards, medieval religious communities composed entirely of laity Christian...

spiritual literature and Porete, alongside Mechthild of Magdeburg and Hadewijch, can be seen as an exemplar of the love mysticism of the Beguine movement. A 15th-century...

April 2013 aged 92 years and was buried in the cemetery of St. John in Kortrijk on 19 April 2013, in the vault of the beguines. "Obituary: Marcella Pattyn"...

Brill, 2015. List of Catholic saints La Cambre Abbey Villers Abbey Beguines and Beghards Marie of Oignies Christina the Astonishing Lutgard of Aywières Leprosy...

(or Mechtild, Matilda, Matelda) of Magdeburg (c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294), a Beguine, was a Christian medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit...

talked-about women in the pot business". Christine Meeusen (owner) Beguines and Beghards Ciani, Corrine (25 December 2021). "Meet the Weed Nuns: Our Ladies...

beguines among those who criticized her, but it is likely she was referring to the cloistered beguines, who felt uncomfortable with the wandering and...

confessor, Jacques de Vitry. His account helped gain papal approval for the Beguines. Marie was born into a family of wealth in the Liège diocese of Nivelles...

necessarily having taken personal religious vows, as in the case of Beguines and Beghards Double monasteries were not exclusively found in the West, however. During...

were a religious sect in medieval France, loosely related to the Beguines and Beghards and the Brethren of the Free Spirit. The name turlupin is a derisive...

and convulsions, all of which tribulations she bore with grace. After lingering for a year, she died aged 21. Marie of Oignies Beguines and Beghards Anke...

in Bohemia were Germans, either Waldensians or Beguines and Beghards. They were accused of theft and violence against orthodox Christians. In 1335, Pope...

somewhat unusual for the time period. They were often compared to the Beguines and Beghards, another spiritual movement that was seen as a deviation from traditional...

name she is known. After her parents died in 1399, Colette joined the Beguines but found their manner of life unchallenging. Joining a Benedictine order...

Anabaptism Anglicanism Anti-Protestantism Arminianism Baptists Beguines and Beghards Bible Bogomilism Bosnian Church Brethren of the Free Spirit Calvinism...

important role in the development of the Mendicant orders, the Beguines, the Victorines and hospital communities in her domains (without neglecting the traditional...

romantic, but not sexual." Beguines and Beghards Bonin, Erin Lang (Spring 2000). "Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Utopias and the Politics of Gender". SEL:...

mother, Gertrudis, died; her father, Barthelomeus Lanio, sent her to the Beguines in nearby Zoutleeuw, where she attended the local school. Beatrice there...