Abstract
Agnes Blannbekin was a Viennese Beguine of the high middle ages whose 235 revelations were written down in Latin by her confessor. Beguines were lay women who followed a spiritual lifestyle independent from the bondage of marriage on the one hand, and the seclusion of life in a nunnery on the other. The Beguines being grass-roots spirituals living amongst the people, makes it possible for us to explore Blannbekin's work as a source of indigenous knowledge. The study of indigenous knowledge systems presents a recent focus in research, and invites also the medievalist to study texts from this perspective. Blannbekin's work is therefore studied in this essay within categories provided by indigenous knowledge research, that is, traditional healing, food and nature, (female) culture, religion, art, sexuality and bodiness, as well as the formation of governance.
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