What I found to be particularly interesting in the Heresy Lecture – Part II was the Beguine movement as they were pious women that were deeply devoted to Christianity. The Beguines were a group of women that dwelled together in communal homes that became a movement for women. In addition, the Beguines were kind of a renegade Christian sect as they were not recognized as an official branch of Christianity. The homes that the Beguines lived in were referred to as a beguinage throughout Europe. They believed in conducting piety acts such as fasting, chastity, and praying, but did not devote themselves to making oaths to the Catholic Church. Consequently, the Catholic Church had issues regulating the Beguines as their numbers began to increase
