"There are among us women whom we have no idea what to call, ordinary women or nuns, because they live neither in the world nor out of it. Franciscan Friar Gilbert of Tournai, 1274." During the late twelfth century there was a turn that established a woman's role in her religious society. They began teasing the idea of living outside of the normal societal sphere and create one of their own. Many women were open to this idea of a relationship with themselves and not with exclusively a husband or exclusively God. Because of this new fetish the Beguine movement flourished. The first wom…
