The Mirror of Simple Souls
Title | The Mirror of Simple Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Marguerite Porete |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780809134274 |
We know very little about Marguerite Porete, only that she was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. She might have been a solitary itinerant beguine who expounded her teachings to interested listeners.
The Mirror of Simple Souls
Title | The Mirror of Simple Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Marguerite Porete |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2019-11-06 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781927077351 |
This edition of The Mirror of the Simple Soul was originally published in 1927. It has since been attributed to Marguerite Porete, a French mystic. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial. The book is cited as one the primary texts of the medieval Heresy of the Free Spirit.
Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls
Title | Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Maguire Robinson |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791490696 |
An in-depth examination of the work of this important medieval woman mystic.
A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls
Title | A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stauffer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900433856X |
There existed no English-language scholarly introduction to Marguerite Porete or The Mirror of Simple Souls until now. Current interest in both and the implications her book has on medieval scholarship make a collection such as this companion ideal.
Curing Mad Truths
Title | Curing Mad Truths PDF eBook |
Author | Rémi Brague |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0268105715 |
In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.
Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls
Title | Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Kocher |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Medieval Women: Texts Contexts
The Secret Within
Title | The Secret Within PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Riehle |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2014-02-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801470927 |
Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders—from Cuthbert, Godric of Fichale, and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. In The Secret Within, Wolfgang Riehle offers the first comprehensive history of English medieval mysticism in decades—one that will appeal to anyone fascinated by mysticism as a phenomenon of religious life. In considering the origins and evolution of the English mystical tradition, Riehle begins in the twelfth century with the revival of eremitical mysticism and the early growth of the Cistercian Order in the British Isles. He then focuses in depth on the great mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—Richard Rolle (the first great English mystic), the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. Riehle carefully grounds his narrative in the broader spiritual landscape of the Middle Ages, pointing out both prior influences dating back to Late Antiquity and corresponding developments in mysticism and theology on the Continent. He discusses the problem of possible differences between male and female spirituality and the movement of popularizing mysticism in the late Middle Ages. Filled with fresh insights, The Secret Within will be welcomed especially by teachers and students of medieval literature as well as by those engaged in historical, theological, philosophical, cultural, even anthropological and comparative studies of mysticism.