The enduring literary fame of Gustave Flaubert was established all at one go, in the course of a famous trial that simultaneously brought him success and scandal. In 1857, when Madame Bovary (translated 1881) was appearing in serial form, the imperial pr...
The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school in France. Gustave Flaubert was born on Dec. 12, 1821...
The Mirror of Simple Souls. By Margaret Porette. Translated from the French by Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., J. C. Marler, and Judith Grant. Foreword by Kent Emery, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. lxxvi + 209 pp. $24.00 (paper). This...
MARGUERITE PORETES'S devotional book A Mirror for Simple Souls provides an example of the fruitfulness of paying attention to a book deemed heretical by ecclesiastical authorities in its own time. On June 1, 1310, Porete was burned as a heretic at the Place de...
