Cities of Ladies
Subtitle: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780812236040
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women; Women's Studies - History; Medieval; History; History - General History; Women's Studies - General; History: World; Mysticism; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Women's studies; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Church history; Beguines; Benelux countries
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.