The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority

304 Pages·2014·4.566 MB·English

by  Tanya Stabler Miller

The Beguines of Medieval Paris
The Middle Ages series
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edward Peters, Founding editor
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The Beguines
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gender, Patronage,
and spiritual Authority
Tanya stabler Miller
university of pennsylvania press
philadelphia
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library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Miller, Tanya stabler.
The Beguines of medieval Paris : gender, patronage, and
spiritual authority / Tanya stabler Miller. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (The Middle Ages series)
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBN 978-0-8122-4607-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Beguines—France—Paris—history—To 1500. 2. Women
in Christianity—France—Paris—history—To 1500.
3. Monastic and religious life of women—France—Paris—
history—To 1500. i. Title. ii. series: Middle Ages series.
BX4272.Z5F877 2014
282'.44361082—dc23
2013044479
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contents
introduction 1
Chapter 1. The Prud’homme and the Beguines: louis iX and
the Foundation of the Beguinage of Paris 14
Chapter 2. The World of the Beguinage 35
Chapter 3. Beguines, silk, and the City 59
Chapter 4. Masters and Pastors: sorbonne scholars,
Beguines, and religious instruction 81
Chapter 5. religious education and spiritual Collaboration
at the Beguinage of Paris 103
Chapter 6. “There Are Among Us Women Called Beguines” 126
Chapter 7. The King’s Beguines 145
Appendix. Beguines Whose Occupations Are Known 173
Notes 175
Bibliography 257
index 277
Acknowledgments 291
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(20% of all mercers)
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(40% of silk workers)
SW2 - Silk workers’ Zone 2
(16% of silk workers)
- Lombard Neighborhood
- House of Beguines
- House of Lay Religious Women
Map 1. Medieval Paris