Good Women

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Good Women were female adherents of the medieval Christian dualist movement Catharism, known for their ascetic lifestyle and spiritual authority within the sect.

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Good Women canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf female religious adherent
religious role
alsoKnownAs bonnes femmes
linked to: Les Bonnes Femmes

perfect women
associatedWith Good Men
consequence near extinction by 14th century
countryOfActivity County of Toulouse
Kingdom of France
Languedoc
Northern Italy
doctrine belief in two opposing principles of good and evil
dualism
rejection of Catholic sacraments
rejection of material world as evil
equivalentClass Perfectae
ethicalCode poverty
strict nonviolence
truthfulness
function administering consolamentum to others
leading prayers and fasts
gender female
historicalEvent Albigensian Crusade
influenceOn later perceptions of female religious authority in heretical movements
languageOfName Occitan
Old French
partOf Cathar communities
persecutedBy Medieval Inquisition
linked to: Inquisition

Roman Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
practiced abstinence from meat
ascetic lifestyle
celibacy
itinerant preaching
renunciation of property
receivedRite consolamentum
religion Christian dualism
medieval Christianity
religiousStatus consecrated persons
elite within Cathar hierarchy
religiousTradition Catharism
roleInCommunity models of perfect life
pastoral care for believers
spiritual authority
teachers of doctrine
sourceType known mainly from inquisitorial records
timePeriod 12th century
13th century
early 14th century

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Catharism followersCalled Good Women