Cities of Ladies
Subtitle: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (The Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812218534
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; Gender Studies; World history: c 500 to C 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Women's Studies - History; Mysticism; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Western Continental Europe; Medieval; History / Medieval; Religious communities & monasticism
First sentence: Medieval visitors to the southern Low Countries would have been struck first by the variety of the landscape unfolding before them as they crossed the region from west to east.