![]() ![]() ![]() Although she follows the expert Walter Simons in his study of the label beguine and its connotation of praying laywomen, and although she also states herself that beguines were lay, she is not held back by her own definition and incorporates all kinds of religious women “who gave voice to their own experience of the Divine” (p. She is clearly on the lookout for authentic voices of medieval women authors. She writes an emotive history of beguine spirituality into which she weaves exquisite passages from beguine authors. Laura Swan, in her introductory study, proves to be well-read in recent scholarship, although in English only German scholarship eludes her. The Wisdom of the Beguines is a general introduction to beguine spirituality written for a general readership the edited volume Labels and Libels brings together eight studies by specialists on problems of terminology and identity of medieval beguines. ![]()
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