Medievalists.net » The Mirror of Simple Souls http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 “The World on the End of a Reed”: Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/the-world-on-the-end-of-a-reed-marguerite-porete-and-the-annihilation-of-an-identity-in-medieval-and-modern-representations-a-reassessment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/the-world-on-the-end-of-a-reed-marguerite-porete-and-the-annihilation-of-an-identity-in-medieval-and-modern-representations-a-reassessment/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:38:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29458 Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete „fit‟ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not „fit‟ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period.

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