medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I ran an Advanced Search query under beguine and French language on the
Feminae website
(http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html)
and got 7 hits.
Beguines & French yielded 5.
You could start there./
Tom Izbicki
At 08:07 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Greetings everyone,
>
>I'm a newcomer to the listserv, working on a Fulbright in church history
>in Münster, Germany. Am relatively new to the game, having gotten my
>bachelor's last year at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. My
>major was in International studies (focusing on European political
>science), but I had a minor in religion and also did considerable work in
>history, English and continental literature, and feminist studies, thanks
>to the interdisciplinary nature of my program. In the last two years of
>my undergraduate career, I conducted a considerable amount of research
>(then mostly through secondary sources) into the beguine "movement",
>focusing on the span between the "origins" of the beguines and the papal
>condemnation of them at the Council of Vienne. I worked to frame them
>through lenses of queer theory (in the spirit of Dinshaw's "Getting
>Medieval") and social movement theory, and also analyzing them in general
>with regard to other heretical groups (real or imaginary), such as the
>"free spirits", tricky work because of the caveats involved when analyzing
>any historical event or process through contemporary, "post-Modern" lenses.
>
>My current project thus extends my earlier research in a larger
>comparative view to the much-contested historical underpinnings of the
>beguine phenomenon, as well as other lay movements of that era. I had
>originally planned to examine primary texts as well as more secondary
>sources to postulate how this movement could be seen as "uniquely
>subversive" in its own time; however, extensive reading has given me
>pause, moving me to more deeply explore the (expansive) historiography of
>the movement, and how feminist and post-Modern as well as Modern analyses
>of the movement have contributed to the formation of deterministic and
>oft-misleading discourses regarding medieval mulieres sanctae and their
>possibly long-reaching historical origins (not to mention the
>long-contested etymology of their partially pejorative name), in earlier
>Christian as well as pre-Christian cultures. In this vein, I would
>appreciate any or all suggestions you might have regarding this topic.
>
>However, I also have a more specific request, and that is regarding French
>scholarship on beguines. Alongside English and some Latin, German is my
>primary research language, and thus most of my secondary sources have been
>from German scholars (Reichstein, Wilts, Spies, Wehrli-Johns, etc.), and I
>am aware of some key Dutch works. Although I have had two years of
>university-level French, I am still quite unfamiliar with most French
>beguine scholars past and present, and would be very grateful if someone
>could give me some tips as to some solid French-language resources. Once
>again, many thanks for any and all information.
>
>Best,
>Jenny Carlson
>
>Westfalische-Wilhelms Universität Münster
>Norbertstr. 21
>48151 Münster
>Germany
>0251/520-9776
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