19 juillet 2021
Isabel Harvey, « Call for papers, RSA 2022 - Dublin. Non-Cloistered Religious Women: Between World and Church », The Other Sisters, ID : 10670/1.ilp9ux
Beguines are trendy: many websites and novels are dedicated to them. But who were they? Their rediscovery created an upheaval in the long-accepted binary scheme of the female condition in the past: the convent or the house, aut virum aut murum. The beguines were, in fact, only the tip of the iceberg, that of non-cloistered female religious life. The works of Gabriella Zarri about the “terzo stato” in the 1990s demonstrated the importance of this third way of religious celibacy outside religio...