![]() This book seeks to fill that gap, through a case study of the Chapter of Windesheim and the mystical and religious texts its sisters produced, which may be regarded as typical of the female spiritual experience of the Modern Devotion. It was particularly popular with women, thousands of whom were attracted to it but until now there has been no study of the women who played a part in the movement. ![]() In the last decades of the fourteenth century a new religious movement arose in the northern Low Countries, the so-called ‘Modern Devotion’, which had a major influence upon religious life in Europe in the later middle ages. ![]() ![]() Medieval Religious Women in The Low Countries THE ‘MODERN DEVOTION’, THE CANONESSES OF WINDESHEIM AND THEIR WRITINGS ![]()
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