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Preferred term

Béguines  

Definition

  • Lay sisterhoods, founded 12th c., Low Countries; women united for devotion and charity, living together without monastic vows

Broader concept

Notation

  • 114217

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-F26ZDH3Z-G

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