Beguines


Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Les dits de la femme qui brûle - Marguerite Porete
La Nuit des béguines
The Hidden Mirror of La Porete
Beguine Spirituality: Mystical Writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant
Labels and Libels: Naming Beguines in Northern Medieval Europe (Sanctimoniales)
Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations (Library of Medieval Women)
The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority (The Middle Ages Series)
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 (The Middle Ages Series)
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
A World of Independent Women: From the 12th Century to the Present Day: The Flemish Beguinages
So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism
Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguines
The Beguines: Women in Search of Sanctity Within Freedom
Make haste to Love.
Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works

At that time I also had, for a short while, the strength to bear it. But all too soon I lost external sight of the shape of that beautiful man, and I saw him disappear to nothing, so quickly melting away and fusing together that I could not see or observe him outside of me, nor discern him within me. It was to me at that moment as if we were one without distinction.
Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works

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