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| 17) Marguerite was a Beguine, a member of a widespread group of lay women given to the spiritual life, often living together in a beguinage, (18) and often claiming independence from ecclesiastical authority. Although the most common form of beguinage was the convent type, which housed an average of 14. Subsequent chapters treat women who experimented with new forms of religious living (for example, recluses, certain forms of the beguinage, urban solitaries); the three great Beguine mystics (Hadewijch, Mechtild, and Marguerite of Porete); and, finally, the women mystics who belonged to traditional religious orders (such as the great tradition of the monastery of Helfta). |
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