Marguerite Porete
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Author
Marguerite Porete
Location
Hainaut, Belgium
Dates
1248/1250-1310
Biography
Marguerite Porete was a French-speakingmystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape (divine love). She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial, after refusing to remove her book from circulation or recant her views.
Works
The Mirror of Simple Souls
Languages
French
Genres
Devotional
Editions and Translations
Porete, Marguerite. The Mirror of Simple Souls. Edited by Ellen Babinsky. Paulist Press, 1993.
Archival Holdings
French Manuscript: Le Mirour des Simples Ames: 157, Bibliothèque et Archives du Château, Chantilly, Franc. The Mirror of Simple Souls, translation by 'M.N' of Marguerite Porete's Speculum simplicium animarum: MS Bodl 505, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
