Anglican Theological Review, July 1st, 2000
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 book translates one of the more remarkable documents to survive from the explosion of lay religiosity in the high Middle Ages. We know little about Marguerite Porete (c. 1250-1310; I use the more common spelling), but she is usually associated with the uncloistered laywomen (and some men) known as beguines, who pursued lives of service and co...
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