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i n d e x Page references in italics refer to illustrations. Abelard, on confession, 235n116 Ade of senlis, 73; tax assessment of, 64, 72 Ad nostrum (decree), 4, 142–44 Agatha la Petite, property of, 202n141 Agnes (silk worker), 73 Agnes de la Tache, 66, 207n44; noble clients of, 79 Agnes de senliz, 254n2 Agnes of Orchies, 27, 40, 187n101; tomb of, 109, 110 Alexander iV, Pope, 21 Alice de Malaisie, 56 Alice of saint-Joce, 64, 207n37, 254n7 Alice of saint-Quentin, royal pension of, 245n30 almonry, royal, 149, 151, 164–65, 196n64; for laywomen, 195n59; under louis iX, 181n12; under Philip iV, 147, 244n12 Alphonse of Poitiers, 44; bequest to beguines, 147, 244n16 Ameline (silk worker), 73, 213n101, 254n3 Amour verses (Old French), 121, 234n107 Andreas Capellanus, 230n57 Anne de Beaujeu, 170 Archer, Janice, 205nn18–19, 207nn39,45, 209n57 Arnoul le Bescochier, 120, 131–32 Arrode, Jeanne, 45 Auberde, Perrenelle, 55 aumônières, 69, 210n66 Babinsky, ellen, 241n63 Baconthorpe, John, 128, 142 Baldwin, John W., 179n37 Basile (silk worker), 73, 213n101 Beatrice la grande, 204n159; bequest to, 53, 77–78, 201n127 Beatrice of Nazareth, 106 beghards, 4, 141, 142; german, 177n22 beguinage, Parisian, 10; administration of, 30, 31, 40, 55–56, 151–54, 163, 193n28, 244n15; admission into, 45, 153; anniversary masses at, 106–7, 227n22; appeal of, 37; approximation of convent, 34; authority over, 28–30, 146, 203n157; Bonaventure’s sermon at, 137; book culture of, 108–9; chapel of, 37, 135; chaplain of, 98, 152–53; Charles iV’s statutes for, 145, 159–65; under Charles Vii, 169; choir of, 106–7, 227nn19–21; communal life of, 41, 106–7; components of, 54; condemnation of, 107; decline of, 165–71; departures from, 59, 128, 204nn1–2; dining area of, 41, 194n41; documentation for, 27–28; dominican responsibility for, 40, 55, 152, 163, 193n28; effect of civil wars on, 166–67; effect of Clementine decrees on, 165; elite women in, 165–67; entrance fees of, 167; evictions from, 204n1; family support for, 54–55; in fifteenth century, 168–69, 252n141; Filles de l’Ave Maria at, 170, 252n132; finances of, 29; Flemish model of, 26; Flemish recruits in, 27; following Vienne decrees, 158–65; giles’s defense of, 130–31; homes within, 41, 43, 57, 194n42; institutional identity of, 108; labor in, 47–48; lay support for, 35; life in, 37–41; living arrangements of, 54–55; location of, 27–28, 29, 170–71, 188n110; louis’s foundation of, 1, 8, 9, 14–17, 25–34, 145, 162, 181n15; Marguerite Porete and, 159; material support for, 31–33, 36, 43–44, 106–7, 153; mendicant involvement with, 31; Notre dame’s suit against, 167, 252n127; Parlement of Paris on, 170; pastoral care at, 83, 152–53, 189nn125–26, 252n140; patrons of, 28, 30, 278  beguinage, Parisian (cont’d) 45–46, 49, 159, 160, 166, 171; under Philip the Fair, 152–54; Philip Vi’s support for, 165; porosity of, 37–38; preachers at, 31; property of, 8, 46–50, 52–55, 202n140; recruitment into, 27, 36, 42–44; relations with authorities, 151–54; religious expression in, 104–5; rights and privileges of, 28; robert of sorbon’s sermons at, 90–94; royal power over, 28, 29, 146, 203n157; royal rehabilitation of, 145; royal support for, 8, 35, 37, 146–51, 161–65, 170, 198n90; rules governing, 27, 35, 39, 192n12; school of, 37, 108, 166, 199n94, 228n32; security provided by, 25, 33–34, 58, 188n122; seizure of property from, 157; self-sufficiency of, 46; senior beguines of, 39–40, 55, 152, 193n26; sermons preached at, 81–82, 98, 107, 116–20, 224n111; servants in, 41, 194n43; as site of collaboration, 122; socioeconomic composition of, 41–46, 107, 165–66; spirituality of, 8–9, 12, 37; suspicions concerning orthodoxy, 164; symbolism for monarchy, 145; teaching mission of, 104; ties to city, 40; ties to clerics, 35, 37, 40; transfer to Franciscan tertiaries, 169–70; visitors to, 37, 39–40, 192n23 beguinages (institutions), 2; Belgian, 177n19; of Cambrai, 26; chaplains of, 253n141; convent, 186n94; female relatives in, 202n146; importance for textile industry, 47–48; as poor houses, 191n4; protection against heresy in, 6, 177n22; spirituality in, 7; standards for, 130–31 beguinages, advantages of, 25; locations of, 188n111; of low Countries, 9, 10, 15, 47 beguinages, low Country, 5; administration of, 31–32; of Bruges, 157, 249n52; communal worship in, 227n17; curtis, (court), 6, 198n93; education at, 107–8; elites in, 191n9; entrance fees of, 167, 198n92...

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