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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
trans. from the Occitan with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay by Kathleen Garay and Madeleine Jeay (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), 180 pp. ISBN 0-85991-629-4. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00.
The blessed Doucelina of Digne (1215 or 1216-74) was a figure similar to the better-known Flemish Marie of Oignies (d. 1213) and, like her, accepted designation as a beguine. Doucelina introduced this communitarian form of spiritual life for devout laywomen into southern France, founding houses in Hyeres (Var) and Marseilles. Her life, which survives in a single manuscript (BN fr. 1303), was...
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