Which Mirror of Simple Souls? Reconsidering Manuscript Transmission and Translation

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Marguerite Porete Society

Organizer Name

Zan Kocher

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette

Presider Name

Robert Stauffer

Presider Affiliation

Dominican College

Paper Title 1

Lessons from Valenciennes: The Usefulness of Bibliothèque Municipale MS 239 to Readers of Other Versions of the Mirror of Simple Souls

Presenter 1 Name

Zan Kocher

Paper Title 2

Forgotten Marginalia and Vernacular-Latin Manuscript Tradition in Le Mirouer des simples ames by Marguerite Porete

Presenter 2 Name

Pablo García Acosta

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas, Univ. Pompeu Fabra

Paper Title 3

Breaking the Mirror Anew: Opposition to the Speculum simplicium animarum in the Fifteenth Century

Presenter 3 Name

Justine Trombley

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of St. Andrews

Start Date

11-5-2013 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1125

Description

This session brings together papers about the Mirror's manuscript tradition, the relationships among copies, the book's medieval translations into Latin and vernacular languages, and the relative merits of the surviving manuscripts.

Zan Kocher