I used to be chasing up some info about KU Leuven, the oldest Catholic college in Europe and the location of a serious EU/US assembly on tech and commerce. Within the course of, I got here throughout this description of the Beguines within the Belgian metropolis of Leuven.
- Communities of beguines fashioned on the finish of the 12th century .
- Beguines have been ladies who devoted their life to God with out retracting themselves from the common, secular life.
- Distinctive attribute of the Beguine motion was that it was not, in contrast to most convent orders, based at a particular time by a particular individual.
- Motion progressively grew as particular person, religiously impressed ladies discovered each other, every of them training their faith with out precise rule and initially additionally with out generalized vows.
- On the finish of the 18th century some 300 Beguines lived right here, and the final Beguine of the Nice Beguinage in Leuven died solely in 1988.
Struck me as an attention-grabbing enterprise mannequin for the type of agile, emergent and networked mannequin of organising we have a tendency to think about as terribly trendy.
