Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Flanders still boatsts 25 beguinages. All heir to the same movement, but each with its specific history, its specific atmosphere. This is the first book to present a synthesis of this aspect of social and religious life in Flanders. The hundreds of engravings, old picture postcards, paintings, historical maps, .... will make you enjoy the hidden heritage of the bequines, which is now protected as world heritage.

Religious architecture --- Flanders --- 271.961 --- C3 --- begijnhof --- Begijnen. Begijnhoven --- Kunst en cultuur --- 271.961 Begijnen. Begijnhoven

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual Franciscans. They stressed poverty in their pursuit of a Franciscan evangelical ideal and believed themselves to be living in the Last Days. By the late thirteenth century, the leaders of the order and the popes themselves had begun to discipline the Spirituals, and by 1317 they had been deemed a heresy. The Beguins refused to accept this situation and began to evade and confront the inquisitorial machine. Burnham follows the lives of nine Beguins as they conceal themselves in cities, construct an "underground railroad," solicit clandestine donations in order to bribe inquisitors, escape from prison, and venerate the burned bones of their martyred fellows as the relics of saints. Their actions brought the Beguins the apocalypse they had long imagined, as the Church's inquisitors pursued them along with the Spirituals and began to arrest them and burn them at the stake. Reconstructing this dramatic history using inquisitorial depositions, notarial records, and the previously unknown Beguin martyrology, Burnham vividly recreates the world in which the Beguins lived and died for their beliefs.

Christian religious orders --- Languedoc --- Christian heresies --- Third orders --- Hérésies chrétiennes --- Tiers ordres --- History --- Histoire --- Olivi, Pierre Jean, --- Franciscans --- Languedoc (France) --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- Franciscan Spirituals --- -Third orders --- -271.961 --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Tertiaries --- Spirituals, Franciscan --- Friars --- Begijnen. Begijnhoven --- Olieu, Pierre Jean, --- Oliva, Petrus Johannis, --- Olivi, --- Olivi, P. J. --- Olivi, Peter, --- Olivi, Peter John, --- Olivi, Peter of John, --- Olivi, Petrus Johannis, --- Olivi, Pietro di Giovanni, --- Peter John Olivi, --- -Church history. --- 271.961 Begijnen. Begijnhoven --- Hérésies chrétiennes --- 271.961 --- Peter of John Olivi, --- Peter Olivi, --- Olivi, Pierre de Jean, --- Languedoc [Old French province]