@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5vkdj8.5,
 ISBN = {9780812246070},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkdj8.5},
 abstract = {By the mid-thirteenth century Paris was home to an increasingly visible population of religious women who lived in a manner that earned them the labelbeguinae.In the early 1250s, the secular cleric William of Saint-Amour (d. 1272) complained of “young women who are called beguines,” lamenting that they were becoming “widespread throughout the kingdom.”¹ In the late 1250s and early 1260s, William’s contemporary Robert of Sorbon (d. 1274) found the beguine life worthy of extensive commentary and praise in his sermons and treatises addressed to students in Paris. Although details about informal beguine communities are lacking, such women had},
 author = {Tanya Stabler Miller},
 booktitle = {The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority},
 pages = {14--34},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {The Prud’homme and the Beguines: Louis IX and the Foundation of the Beguinage of Paris},
 year = {2014}
}