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Rheno-Flemish spirituality
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Rheno-Flemish spirituality. A style of Christian mystical devotion of the 13th cent., which developed in Belgium and the Rhineland. The Rhineland mystics emphasized the seeking and finding of God within, rather than in outward devotions. They were rooted in the practice and experience of the Beguines (and their male counterparts, the Beghards), who were lay religious groups seeking the simplicity of the early Church in communal association with each other (they were condemned, especially for their use of the vernacular Bible and private interpretation of scripture, but their descendants survive to the present). One major figure was Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210–
c.1290), who lived most of her life as a Beguine, but retired to a convent when her writings were attacked; her main work,
Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of the Godhead), is a compendium of her own experiences and of medieval mysticism.
Gertrude of Helfta (1256–1301/2), often called ‘the Great’, experienced, at the age of 25, a bond of love with Jesus, a kind of ‘nuptial mysticism’ (
Brautmystik), and from that time entered a life of contemplation; she wrote the much-admired
Legatus Divinae Pietatis (The Herald of Divine Love, parts of which were written later from her notes), and was one of the first to develop devotion to the
Sacred Heart. Hadewijch of Antwerp (early 13th cent.), whose
Visions develop the same theme of a union with God of ecstatic love (
minnemystiek), Jan van
Ruysbroeck, and
Hildegard of Bingen are often associated with this group; and the
devotio moderna of Gerard
Groote is usually regarded as a direct successor.
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The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian. (Shorter Notices).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...more guidance to the scholarship on such topics as the medieval debates over scriptural interpretation, or the Beguines and Beghards. Also, Salminen's critical edition of the Heptameron should be added to the bibliography. DOUGLAS TABER Wayne State College...
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The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in madrasas (religious colleges) and universities; and the rise of lay religiosity that spawned Sufi brotherhoods and the Beghards and Beguines. These innovations offended religious authorities, but whereas in Christendom the confrontation with popular...
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Religious poverty, mendicancy, and reform in the late Middle Ages.
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...life. When they did not enter the established mendicant orders outright, they became semiregular tertiaries, or they became beghards and beguines, associated loosely and informally at best with the approved religious orders. (9) Here I want to focus on...
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"EVIL-SOUNDING, RASH, AND SUSPECT OF HERESY": TENSIONS BETWEEN MYSTICISM AND MAGISTERIUM IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...helped form the basis for the Council of Vienne's 1312 attack on the dangerous mystical ideas attributed to beguines and beghards." This was the birth certificate of the movement traditionally referred to as the heresy of the Free Spirit (secta libertatis...
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The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...are subjected to as much criticism as women, as becomes evident in the passage in which Martinez de Toledo writes about the Beghards. My only objection to this intelligent chapter is that Archer qualifies the Arcipreste de Talavera's prose as 'narrative...
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Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...English-speaking world has had to make do with Ernest McDonnell's rather our-of-date and unwieldy, The Beguines and Beghards in Medieval Culture: With Special Emphasis on the Belgian Scene (New Brunswick, NJ, 1954). The product of massive archival...
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The way of imperfection: laughter and mysticism in Marguerite de Navarre's L'Heptameron.
Magazine article from: French Forum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...belief "mysticism," whose sources he detects in the teachings of the "Spirituals" (followers of the Beguines and the Beghards), in the letters of Guillaume Briconnet (the bishop of Meaux and the principal promoter of an ecclesiastical reformation...
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Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the mendicant orders in their early days, the associations of mendicant Tertiaries, the Humiliati, and the Beguines and Beghards were expressions of corporate religiosity. Others, reflecting a more intense, perhaps obsessive, religious impulse, are...
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Beghards
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Beghards , religious associations of men in Europe...beginning unpopular and mistrusted. The Beghards were condemned by the Council of Vienne...foreshadowed in the Albigensian teachings. The Beghards were also influenced by the pantheism...
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Beguines, Beghards
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Beguines, Beghards. The Beguines were women leading pious...marry. Their male counterparts were the Beghards (usually weavers, dyers or fullers...x2013;12) condemned both Beguines and Beghards. Some Beguines (e.g. M. Porette...
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Beguines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...church authorities; but in the 13th and 14th cent. accusations of heresies and immorality among them as well as among the Beghards , the corresponding bands of men, led to the scattering of the members. The character of the surviving communities eventually...
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Meister Eckhart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...provincial of the German province was not confirmed. Toward the end of his life he was wrongly accused of connection with the Beghards and charged with heresy. He was upheld by his order, but the charge was pressed. Eckhart appealed to Rome. He died between...
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Council of Vienne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pressure from Philip, reversed itself and recommended that the order be suppressed. The pope dissolved the order by papal bull a few days later. The council also passed minor doctrinal decrees and condemned the errors of the Beghards .
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