The Mirror of Simple Souls: Read Aloud, in Manuscripts, and in Printed Books

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Marguerite Porete Society

Organizer Name

Robert Stauffer

Organizer Affiliation

Dominican College

Presider Name

Christopher M. Bellitto

Presider Affiliation

Kean Univ.

Paper Title 1

New Trends in Marguerite Porete Studies

Presenter 1 Name

Wendy Terry

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Davis

Paper Title 2

Orthodox Readings of the Condemned Mirror

Presenter 2 Name

Robert Stauffer

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I Shilling Lounge

Description

Geneviéve Hasenohr's discovery of the Valenciennes manuscript and Robert Lerner's 2008 Speculum article "New Light on The Mirror of Simple Souls," has renewed interest in this fourteenth century mystical text. Brill's 2017 A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls brings a range of that scholarship together in the hopes that it will inspire even further scrutiny of this enigmatic book and its nearly anonymous author. The editors of the Companion discuss where scholarship has been looking and new readings into the text.

Robert F. Stauffer