IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 304: Making, Breaking, and Bending Rules: Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls
Monday 9 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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Organiser: | Justine Trombley, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
Moderator/Chair: | Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
Paper 304-a | Breaking the 'Mirror' Anew: Opposition to the Speculum Simplicium Animarum in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Paper 304-b | Porete Male Author?: A Resistant Preference (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Religious Life |
Paper 304-c | The Case of the Just Man: Porete's Proverbs (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life |
Abstract | This session focusses on the beguine Marguerite Porete and her book The Mirror of Simple Souls, the composition of which led Marguerite to be burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310. A mystical treatise describing the soul's path to becoming 'annihilated' in God, The Mirror of Simple Souls has a long history of simultaneously adhering to, breaking, and blurring the 'rules' of religious discourse and spiritual expression in the later European Middle Ages. This session will look at the Mirror's relation to rules both within its own pages and in the historical context of heresy and orthodoxy in the 14th and 15th centuries. |