Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Margaret Porete (ca. 1310) was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic. This volume contains the first modern English translation of the complete text of The Mirror, written between 1296 and 1306. It is a theological treatise that analyzes how love in humans is related to divine love and how the soul may experience a lasting union with God in this life. With this volume, readers may better understand the ancient expressions of faith, othodox or otherwise, of the middle ages.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- An important example of unothodox belief from church history
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- This English translation opens up new avenues for research and comparitive studies in ancient Christianity
- Title: Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
- Author: Marguerite Porete
- Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 1993
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 259
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Contemplation; Spiritual life › Christianity--Early works to 1800; Mysticism › France--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Beguines › France--History
- ISBNs: 0809104644, 0809134276, 9780809104642, 9780809134274
- Resource ID: LLS:MRGRTPRTSMPLSLS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:22:48Z
About the Author
Marguerite Porete (circa 1248/1250 – 1 June 1310) was a mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after refusing to remove her book from circulation or recant her views.