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Marguerite Porete (died 1310) was a French mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian spirituality dealing with the workings of Divine Love. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial, after refusing to remove her book from circulation or recant her views. The book is cited as one the primary texts of the medieval Heresy of the Free Spirit.

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Average rating: 4.67 · 12 ratings · 1 review · 6 distinct works

	Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	A Mirror for Simple Souls: The Mystical Work of Marquerite Porete by Marguerite Porete, Porete 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	A mirror for simple souls 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Lo Specchio Delle Anime Semplici 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Le Miroir des âmes simples et anéanties et qui seulement demeurent en vouloir et désir d'amour 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Le Miroir Des Ames Simples Et Aneanties: Et Qui Seulement Demeurent En Vouloir Et Desir D'amour 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”
― Marguerite Porete

tags: feminism , medieval , reason

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“Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house. ”
― Marguerite Porete

tags: bible , feminism , interpretation , medieval , mystic , religion , theology

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