The Beguines (/beɪˈɡiːnz, ˈbɛɡiːnz/) and the Beghards (/ˈbɛɡərdz, bəˈɡɑːrdz/) were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Western Europe,...
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Begijnhof, Amsterdam (category Buildings and structures in Amsterdam)
Voorburgwal, the Spui and the Begijnensloot or "Beguines' Ditch"), with the sole entrance located at the Begijnensteeg ("Beguines' Alley"), which had a...
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Council of Vienne (section Disbanding the Beguines)
Franciscans, allowing abbots to decide how to interpret their Rule. The Beguines and Beghards of Germany were condemned as heretics, while the council forbade...
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Brethren of the Free Spirit (redirect from Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit)
applied to the various unregulated religious groups such as the Beguines and Beghards, who had greatly increased in number in the preceding decades. Concerns...
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Begga (category Beguines and Beghards)
Begginarum et Beggardorum fundatricis vetus (Louvain, 1631) McDonnell, Beguines and Beghards, pp. 179, n. 51, & 430-31 Andenne History of Andenne, Belgium Attwater...
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Beguinage (category Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century)
created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world. Originally the beguine institution was...
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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...
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Hadewijch (category Beguines and Beghards)
women. However, men were not known as beguines, but rather, called themselves beghards. Hadewijch was a beguine mystic who had lived during the thirteenth...
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the twelfth and thirteenth-century Brethren of the Free Spirit, Beguines and Beghards were all accused of holding beliefs with similarities to those condemned...
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Apostolic Brethren Alumbrados Bagnolians Barallot Barsanuphians Beguines and Beghards Bogomilism Bosnian Church Brautmystik Brethren of the Free Spirit...
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Catholic Worker Movement (category Catholicism and far-left politics)
Ploughshares Anabaptism, in particular the emerging peace church movement Beguines and Beghards, medieval religious communities composed entirely of laity Christian...
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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)...
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arrested 40 Beguines and Beghards in Nordhausen, of whom 7 were sentenced to death. Henry Agro is only known to have burned the Beguine Meta von Westhove...
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in Bohemia were Germans, either Waldensians or Beguines and Beghards. They were accused of theft and violence against orthodox Christians. In 1335, Pope...
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Marguerite Porete (category Beguines and Beghards)
includes beguines among those who criticized her, but she was likely referring to the cloistered Beguines, who felt uncomfortable with the wandering and mendicant...
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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...
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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...
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Marcella Pattyn (category Beguines and Beghards)
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"...
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The Mirror of Simple Souls (category Beguines and Beghards)
spiritual literature, and Porete, alongside Mechthild of Magdeburg and Hadewijch, can be seen as an exemple of the love mysticism of the Beguine movement. A 15th-century...
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talked-about women in the pot business". Christine Meeusen (owner) Beguines and Beghards Ciani, Corrine (25 December 2021). "Meet the Weed Nuns: Our Ladies...
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Marie of Oignies (category Beguines and Beghards)
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...
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Colette of Corbie (category Beguines and Beghards)
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...
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Joan, Countess of Flanders (category Beguines and Beghards)
important role in the development of the Mendicant orders, the Beguines, the Victorines and hospital communities in her domains (without neglecting the traditional...
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Mechthild of Magdeburg (category Beguines and Beghards)
Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812203283. Swan, L. (2014). The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement. BlueBridge. ISBN 978-1-933346-97-7...
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Anabaptism Anglicanism Anti-Protestantism Arminianism Baptists Beguines and Beghards Bible Bogomilism Bosnian Church Brethren of the Free Spirit Calvinism...
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Saint Alice. List of Catholic saints La Cambre Abbey Villers Abbey Beguines and Beghards Marie of Oignies Christina the Astonishing Lutgard of Aywières Leprosy...
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Double monastery (section Decline and revival)
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...
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dogma and still exists to this day (alternately known as the Moravian Church). Agonoclita Apostolic Brethren Arnoldists Beguines and Beghards Bogomilism...
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romantic, but not sexual." Beguines and Beghards Bonin, Erin Lang (Spring 2000). "Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Utopias and the Politics of Gender". SEL:...
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Margaret of Ypres (category Beguines and Beghards)
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...
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