مارغريت بوريت

الأعمال

• نحو 1300مرآة النفوس البسيطة (Le Mirouer des simples ames)

  حوار بين الحب والعقل والنفس: سبع مراحل تقود إلى النفس المُفنَّاة التي لا تريد شيئًا وتعيش في الله.

الموقف

“The Mirror of Simple Souls”, written in Old French, describes the soul’s ascent through seven states to a condition in which it has annihilated its own will and lives in God “without a why”. In the dialogue, Reason, who speaks for the Church’s teaching, finally dies of astonishment. The annihilated soul, Porete writes, “takes leave of the virtues”: it no longer serves them as masters, because it is beyond the striving in which virtues are needed – a phrase her judges read as a licence to sin. Her theology of the soul’s nothingness has close parallels in Meister Eckhart, who was in Paris in 1311; many scholars think he knew her book.

الحياة والسياق

Marguerite Porete (c. 1250–1310) was a beguine – a religious laywoman living outside a convent – from Hainaut in the French-speaking Low Countries. Her book was condemned and burned by the bishop of Cambrai around 1300; she continued to circulate it. Arrested in 1308, she refused to answer the inquisitor and was burned at the stake in Paris on 1 June 1310.

أعمال رئيسة أخرى

• The Mirror of Simple Souls (c. 1296–1306)

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