11-08-2022, 09:43 PM
(10-08-2022, 09:06 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The reason why I tend to refer to beguines is that, having grown up in Flanders, this is the female religious order I am most familiar with. My home town has a pretty beguinage which is part of UNESCO world Heritage. Around the VM's carbon dating, it was a town within the city, under protection of the Burgundian ruler.
Even though beguines sound incredibly boring now, there was something rebellious, courageous and free about them, this group of women just deciding to live together without taking the vows nuns would take (hence they were free to leave) and at times challenging the establishment with their independence.
Just to say, I'd find it really awesome if the VM turned out to have something to do with beguines or similar figures. I just don't think we have enough proof to say anything like this.
Hi, Koen, is it possible that there was a relationship between the Bogomil (Cathari, Patareni) women being persecuted would re-surface as a Catholic religious sect. I studied the Bogomils for an article I wrote a couple of years ago, and I learned that Bogomil women were founding schools and hospitals and lived in comunes. They were originally iconoclasts and their interpreted the bible symbolically.
There are several towns and villages in the present day Slovenia called Begunje, one of the main one being near Bled, which in the 15th century was in the possession of the Bishop of Brixen.
In Slovenian, beg means 'running away from danger'.
One more thing, the medieval spirituality in Slovenia in the 15th century was greatly influenced by Via Moderna and German mysics, such as Nicholas of Cusa and Henry Susa.