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Series
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Lovaina, comienzos del siglo XIII . En una floreciente comunidad de beguinas -mujeres laicas que decidian vivir juntas apartadas de los hombres, consagradas a sus labores intelectuales y al cuidado de los desamparados- una serie de muertes alteran repentinamente la paz. El primer asesinato parece accidental, pero el segundo ya muestra claras senales de ensanamiento y llama rapidamente la atencion de la Inquisicion, que lleva tiempo buscando una excusa...
3) Menewood
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 2
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the much-anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change"--
Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking's court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable Lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood. But Edwin needs his...
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest...
Author
Publisher
BlueBridge, an imprint of United Tribes Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago, around the year 1200. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and thus did not take solemn vows and did not live in monasteries. The beguines were a phenomenal movement that swept across Europe yet they were never a religious order or a formalized movement. But there were common elements that rendered these women distinctive and familiar, including their common way of life,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time--and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes, deriding women as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable, and weak. In contrast, drawing on accounts...
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