Nobility and annihilation in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of simples souls'
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791449684
- ISBN10 0791449688
- Type Book
- Pages 178
- Published 2001
- Bookbinding Rustic
Nobility and annihilation in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of simples souls'
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
"This study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation - the complete transformative union of the soul into God - in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality." "Robinson begins by focusing on traditional speculations regarding the origin, nature, limitations, and destiny of humankind. She then examines Porete's work in its more immediate historical and literary contexts, focusing on the ways in which Porete conceptualizes and expresses her radical doctrine of annihilation through contemporary metaphors of lineage and nobility."--BOOK JACKET.