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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture The source is the Vulgate text of II Tim., 3: 6--"For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women [mulierculas] loaded down with sins . . ." Best, Megan At 02:17 PM 1/24/2005 -0500, you wrote: >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture >I've been leafing through Coredon and Williams' Dictionary of Medieval >Terms and Phrases (it seems to apply primarily, if not almost entirely, to >documents from the British Isles) and came across a cross reference from >"beguine" to "mulierculae", the latter being defined as "The 'little >women"' whom students at Oxford c. 1250 were forbidden to have or keep in >their lodgings. - Cf. Beguine." Does any of the eruditi/ae happen to know >the source for this? and was this the usage on the continent, too, for >beguines ? In at least early medieval continental >sources mulierculae is simply a rather dismissive way of referring to >laywomen. > >Bernadette Filotas >********************************************************************** To >join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: >[log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: >[log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: >leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report >problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >[log in to unmask] For further information, visit >our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html Megan McLaughlin Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A. Phone: 217-244-2084 Fax: 217-333-2297 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html