Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls
(2020)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2020). Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 63, 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.118197
This article examines how Marguerite Porete defended her ideas in her mystical treatise The Mirror of Simple Souls, which along with its author was condemned as heretical in 1310. Most scholarship has focussed on the final sixteen chapters of the Mir... Read More about Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.