Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls
An in-depth examination of the work of this important medieval woman mystic.This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation-the complete transformative union of the soul into God-in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality.>Joanne Maguire Robinson is Assistant P…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-9069-3
- EAN: 9780791490693
- Produktnummer: 35072487
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 660 KB
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