In the Late Middle Ages

question 46

Multiple Choice

In the late Middle Ages

• A)some women with a reputation for sanctity exercised a profound moral authority in society.
• B)convents probably outnumbered monasteries.
• C)independent communities of religious women, the Beguines, were suspected of heresy.
• D)moralists denounced the dumping of women into convents.
• E)All of these.

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