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Mariani, Ceci Maria Costa Baptista. "Marguerite Porete, teóloga do século XIII: experiência mística e teologia dogmática em O Espelho das Almas Simples de Marguerite Porete." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2091.
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The point of departure for this study was the work Le Mirouer des Simples Ames by Marguerite Porete, who belonged to a religious order in the region of The Rhine and who, according to history, lived between the second half of the XIII century and the beginning of the XIV century. It is a stimulating work which makes an important contribution to philosophical, theological and literary thinking. Our aim in this study was to explore the Christian mystic, which reached its peak in the late Middle Ages, to deepen the perception of this dynamic which is expressed as an experience of annihilation and to perceive how it unfolds in the theology. The more specific objective was to go deeper into the meaning of Marguerite Porete´s theological thinking, fundamentally mystical, and her contribution to systematic theology today, which intends not only to unite concepts and theological theory, but also to be a theology attentive to historical experience, the objective site of God´s presence, but which in spite of this, has confronted the risk of losing its contemplative dimension, the subjective site of a mystic encounter with God, thus freely transcending historical time and space. Our theological reading of Mirouer led us to perceive that the great contribution from this work lies in the explicitness of the relation between self-deprivation and liberty on the one hand and on the other, the bold affirmation that God is Graciousness, a God of delicacy, sweetness and goodness, in a world whose favored image of God is that of the almighty Father, at one time director, protector and fount of authority, a God of great majesty who remains in heaven and occasionally extends his hand across the clouds. To the God who leads an army constituted of angels and saints who exercise an intermediary function and manifest his protective and judging omnipresence, Marguerite announces the Loin-près, He who from his absolute transcendence, through graciousness, comes to us and transforms us for communion with Him
O ponto de partida dessa pesquisa foi a obra Le Mirouer des Simples Ames de Marguerite Porete, uma beguina cleriga, da região do Reno e que, segundo consta, viveu entre a segunda metade do século XIII e início do século XIV. Uma obra instigante que traz uma contribuição importante para o pensamento filosófico-teológico e literário. Nosso objetivo, com esse estudo, foi sondar a mística cristã que atinge seu ápice na alta idade média, aprofundar a percepção dessa dinâmica, que se expressa como experiência de aniquilamento, e perceber como ela se desdobra em teologia. O objetivo mais específico foi aprofundar o significado do pensamento teológico de Marguerite Porete, fundamentalmente místico, e sua contribuição para teologia sistemática hoje que pretende ser mais que reunião de conceitos, teologia teórica, mas teologia que está atenta para a experiência histórica, lugar objetivo de presença de Deus, mas que, apesar disso, tem enfrentado o risco de perder sua dimensão contemplativa, lugar subjetivo do encontro místico com Deus, transcendência livre do espaço e do tempo, portanto da história. Nossa leitura teológica do Mirouer levou-nos a perceber que a grande contribuição da obra reside na explicitação da relação entre despojamento de si e liberdade por um lado e por outro, na ousada afirmação de que Deus é Cortesia, Deus de delicadeza, doçura e bondade, num mundo cuja imagem privilegiada de Deus é o Pai poderoso, a um tempo diretor e protetor, fonte de autoridade, Deus de grande majestade que permanece no céu e que eventualmente mostra sua mão através das nuvens. Ao Deus que está à frente de um exército constituído de santos e anjos que exercem a função de intermediários e que manifestam sua onipresença protetora e julgadora, Marguerite anuncia o Loin-près, aquele que desde a sua absoluta transcendência, por cortesia, vem a nós e nos transforma para a comunhão com ele
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Bussey, Francesca C. ""The world on the end of a reed" Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations : a reassessment /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3875.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Also available in print form. Includes bibliography.
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Matthews, Rachael Victoria. "The mystical utterance and the metaphorical mode in the writings of Marguerite d'Oingt and Marguerite Porete." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10613/.
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The shared conceptual underpinnings of contemporary metaphor theory and Christian mystical expression form the basis of this study of the works of two very different fourteenth-century French mystics, Marguerite d’Oingt (c.1240-1310) and Marguerite Porete (d.1310). The former, a Carthusian prioress, wrote a series of vivid visionary narratives, the Pagina meditationum, the Speculum, and Li via de Seiti Biatrix, but, to date, has been the subject of little scholarly attention. The latter, meanwhile, is perhaps best known for her condemnation for relapsed heresy and her death at the stake in Paris, on account of her radical mystical text, the Mirouer des simples ames. These two women’s writings present very different examples of late medieval mystical expression. Nevertheless, the two are intimately connected in the sense that both oeuvres are driven by a desire to express their respective experiences of the mystical presence of God. What precisely is meant by ‘mystical experience’ constitutes this mode of expression’s fundamental paradox: by its very definition, the perfection of divine encounter lies beyond the scope of human communication. Metaphor’s capacity for (partial) revelation in circumstances where other modes of communication fail, however, suggests that when applied as a hermeneutic device, theoretical perspectives of metaphor provide a fresh interpretative framework with which to explore the more enigmatic aspects of mystical thought. Drawing on a number of modern theoretical approaches, including those of Paul Ricoeur, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, and Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, this investigation explores the extent to which metaphor’s conceptual and cognitive underpinnings engage with, and potentially unlock, the sensitivities of Marguerite d’Oingt’s and Marguerite Porete’s post-experiential accounts of mystical phenomena. To this end, metaphor may be seen to represent mysticism’s cognitive analogue, a means of effecting linguistic and cognitive transformation impossible to express through literal language alone.
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Lefebvre, Ariane. "La poétique du Mirouer chez Marguerite Porete : construction d'une théologie vernaculaire." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33472.
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Marguerite Porete a su, avec son Mirouer des simples ames anienties écrit entre la fin du XIIIe et le début du XIVe siècle, transformer le discours théologique en une œuvre mystique singulière en français, qui se présente comme une quête spirituelle de l’Âme, dont les guides, Amour et Raison, se disputent le discours jusqu’à ce que l’Amour divin l’emporte et que l’Âme s’anéantisse en lui. Cette étude s’attache à briser la surface miroitante de l’œuvre, pour réfléchir à la senefiance de ce « miroir » offert au lecteur. S’il ne s’agit pas ici de proposer une nouvelle analyse historique et théologique des propos hérétiques de Marguerite Porete, ce mémoire suggère une lecture du Mirouer d’un point de vue littéraire. Son point de départ se situe dans le constat que le texte propose une voix féminine doublement à la marge, par son genre et par sa langue, le français, pour un propos théologique. L’idée a donc été de voir jusqu’où pouvait être utilisée l’image du miroir et comment le conflit présent dans sa double nature, celle d’objet optique de savoir et celle d’objet courtois, pouvait être exploré pour comprendre le texte. Par l’observation détaillée des composantes courtoises et allégoriques de l’œuvre, nous espérons dégager les particularités d’un traité dont les formes du discours joignent théologie et littérature dans un ensemble mystique qui se distingue des œuvres didactiques et spirituelles traditionnelles. En relevant les éléments constitutifs de l’ouvrage, en regard d’un genre didactique attesté, celui du miroir, nous voulons démontrer comment cette tradition se confronte et s’unit à un langage courtois et lyrique, ce qui permet de proposer un enseignement théologique particulier puisqu’il prône, avec l’anéantissement de la raison, son propre anéantissement. De cette manière, nous proposons de réfléchir sur l’élaboration de ce discours mystique par l’intermédiaire de ses attributs courtois et allégoriques afin de mieux saisir l’édification de ce Mirouer original.Marguerite Porete, with her Mirouer written between the 13th and the 14th century, has managed to transform the theological discourse into a singular mystical work in French, which presents itself as a spiritual quest of the Soul, whose guides, Love and Reason, compete for the discursive preeminence until Divine Love prevails and the soul is annihilated in him. This study seeks to break the shimmering surface of the work, to reflect on the senefiance of this "mirror" offered to the reader. If it is not a question here of proposing a new historical and theological analysis of Marguerite Porete's heretical remarks, this memoir suggests a reading of the Mirouer from a literary point of view. Its starting point lies in the observation that the text proposes a female voice doubly marginal, by its genre and by its language, French, for a theological purpose. The idea was therefore to see how far the image of the mirror could be used and how the conflict present in its dual nature, that of an optical object of knowledge and that of a courteous object, could help to understand the text. Through detailed observation of the courtly and allegorical components of the work, we hope to identify the peculiarities of a treatise whose forms of discourse join theology and literature in a mystical ensemble that differs from traditional didactic and spiritual works. By highlighting the constituent elements of the book, in relation to a known didactic genre, that of the mirror, we want to demonstrate how this tradition confronts itself to and unites with a courteous and lyrical language, which makes it possible to propose an original theological teaching since it advocates, with the annihilation of reason, its own annihilation. In this way, we propose to reflect on the elaboration of this mystical discourse through its courteous and allegorical attributes in order to better understand the construction of this original Mirouer.
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Hollywood, Amy M. "The soul as virgin wife : Mechtild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart /." Notre Dame (Ind.) ; London : University of Notre Dame, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37669564d.
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Hahn-Jooss, Barbara. ""Ceste Ame est Dieu par condicion d'Amour" theologische Horizonte im "Spiegel der einfachen Seelen" von Marguerite Porete." Münster Aschendorff, 2008. http://d-nb.info/100025223X/04.
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Thompson, Anna Kay. "Esoteric spirituality and popular mysticism in the fourteenth century tension in the thought of Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Dias, Maruzania Soares. "O gozo de Deus: uma análise lacaniana da experiência mística na obra de Marguerite Porete." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1791.
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Previous issue date: 2010-11-18This dissertation examines, from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the jouissance of God in the work of Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls. The aim was to understand the mystical jouissance as a face of jouissance feminine and to investigate the hypothesis of the mystical jouissance in the work of Porete considered as ethical jouissance. The mystique found in this compelling book, written in the language of Courtly Love and developed as an allegory that addresses the itinerary of the protagonist Alma in her search of the perfect union with God, is sustained by the assumptions of apophatic mysticism - the dynamics of Christian mystical experience that is expressed as of empty budget. With nothing to hold her, the soul becomes nothing. The experience of mystical ecstasy allows, for a brief moment, the jouissance of God, the jouissance of this glorification, where time and eternity come together as a causeway linking the created and uncreated. By demonstrating the centrality of jouissance in the subjective economy, Lacanian psychoanalysis has established the field of jouissance and reformulated the difference between the genders providing a place that, until now, never existed for females: the logic of all-non phallic, where there is a plus-de-jouir, a jouissance that goes beyond the phallic reference. As this Other's jouissance is impossible to symbolize, we have the love as a substitute to the lack of sexual relationship between sex, given that logic Lacanian will show us that Woman does not exist 1, while universal category, which is a correlate of the enunciation there is no sexual relationship , therefore, that is no sexual proportion
A presente dissertação analisa, pela abordagem da psicanálise lacaniana, o gozo de Deus na obra de Marguerite Porete, O Espelho das Almas Simples e Aniquiladas e que Permanecem Somente na Vontade e no Desejo do Amor. O objetivo foi compreender o gozo místico como uma face do gozo feminino e averiguar a hipótese de ser o gozo místico na obra de Porete um gozo estabelecido numa posição ética. A mística encontrada neste livro instigante, escrito na linguagem do Amor Cortês e desenvolvido numa alegoria que aborda o itinerário da protagonista Alma em sua busca da perfeita união com Deus, é sustentada pelos pressupostos da mística apofática dinâmica da mística cristã que se expressa como experiência de esvaziamento. Sem nada reter de seu, a Alma torna-se nada. A experiência do êxtase místico permite, por um breve momento, o gozo de Deus, o gozo dessa glorificação, onde tempo e eternidade se fundem como um istmo que vincula o criado e o incriado. Ao demonstrar a centralidade do gozo na economia subjetiva, a psicanálise lacaniana estabeleceu o campo do gozo e reformulou a diferença entre os sexos possibilitando um lugar até então inexistente para o feminino: a lógica do não-todo fálico, onde há um mais-gozar, um gozo que vai além da referência fálica. Dado que esse gozo do Outro é impossível de simbolizar, temos o amor como suplência à inexistência da relação sexual, uma vez que a lógica lacaniana vai nos mostrar que , enquanto categoria universal, A Mulher não existe , que é correlato do enunciado não há relação sexual , isto é, não há proporção sexual
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Bussey, Francesca Caroline. "'The World on the End of a Reed": Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3875.
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This thesis presents a new assessment of the identity and historical significance of Marguerite Porete, burned for heresy in Paris in 1310, and reconnects her to a vigorous, lay, discourse community that threatened the authority of the later medieval church. The thesis argues that a bilateral annihilation of Porete as an historical subject has been brought about by medieval and modern representations, and that this has served to obscure the presence of a subaltern religious discourse in the period. The historiography of Porete has followed distinctive stages of development that reflect, and are affected by, concurrent advances in the study of medieval female religious participation. This interplay has led to the development of a particularly influential hermeneutics that serves to exclude Porete from her contemporaries. Analysis of documentation issuing from Porete’s condemnation has similarly been influenced by hermeneutic issues that manipulate the ways in which Porete is perceived as an identity. This thesis challenges dominant representations of Porete in the scholarship and argues that Porete’s identity and discourse reflect a particularly vigorous, fluid and cross-discoursed lay engagement with religiosity that has roots in the precocious socio-religious environment of the Southern Low Countries. Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete ‘fit’ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not ‘fit’ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period. Clear links, however, have suggested a wider discourse community and some have identified her, in conjunction with those that condemned her in Paris, as a beguine. Yet this affiliation is refuted by Porete within her book and the term, as an indicator of identity, is highly problematic. This thesis explores the historiographical issues that cloud Porete’s case and offers a reassessment of the possibilities her reconnection to the major religious currents of her day presents. It will be argued that her condemnation represents a major historical development wherein the boundaries of institutionally accepted discourse were hardened at the very moment when the possibilities for religious discourse were at their peak. Porete will thus be reassessed as a major figure in an alternative religious discourse that represents the excluded voice of lay engagement in the later Middle Ages.
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Rimlinger, Riwanon. "La relecture de Marguerite Porete, de Mechthilde de Magdebourg et de Hadewijch d’Anvers par Maître Eckhart." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/DDOC_T_2017_0366_RIMLINGER.pdf.
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Depuis ses débuts, la recherche eckhartienne somme toute relativement récente s'est fréquemment et assidûment penchée sur les grandes inspirations philosophiques et théologiques de Maître Eckhart; on ne compte plus les travaux valorisant les influences néoplatoniciennes, maïmonidiennes ou bien encore thomistes de la production du Maître thuringien. Celui-ci fut néanmoins inspiré par d'autres penseurs auxquels la communauté scientifique a accordé jusqu'à présent moins d'intérêt, c'est notamment le cas des mystiques rhéno-flamandes. Dans ce travail de recherche, nous nous proposerons d'analyser la pensée eckhartienne au regard de plusieurs oeuvres béguinales que sont Le Miroir des âmes simples, La lumière fluente de la Divinité ainsi que les Lettres, les Poèmes et les Visions hadewigiens afin d'affiner l'approche théologique et philosophique d'Eckhart et, ainsi, de mettre en valeur son originalité, de mieux comprendre sa quête singulière d'universalité et de mieux saisir son point d'ancrage. Comment la prodigiosité de la théologie eckhartienne s'est-elle affinée au contact de ces textes en langue vernaculaire?Overall, Eckhartian research has frequently and assiduously leaned on the great philosophical and theological inspirations of Meister Eckhart since its beginnings; works that value Neoplatonist influences, as well as those of Maimonides and the Thomists of Thuringia are no longer given a second thought. This work, however, was inspired by other thinkers to whom the scientific community has, until now, accorded less interest, such as the Rhinish-Flemish mystics, who have notably been the subjects of this kind of indifference. In this paper, we will compare Eckhartian thought to several beguine works, namely, The Mirror of Simple Souls, The Flowing Light of Divinity, as well as the letters, poems, and visions of Hadewijch of Antwerp, in order to refine Eckhart’s theological and philosophical approaches, as well as to highlight his originality, to better understand his singular quest for universality, and his point of focus. How is it that the grandness of Eckhartian theology is refined through the analysis of these texts written in the vernacular of the period?
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Rimlinger, Riwanon [Verfasser], Marie-Anne [Akademischer Betreuer] Vannier, and Freimut [Akademischer Betreuer] Löser. "La relecture de Marguerite Porete, de Mechthilde de Magdebourg et de Hadewijch d'Anvers par Maître Eckhart / Riwanon Rimlinger ; Marie-Anne Vannier, Freimut Löser." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/120224615X/34.
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Trombley, Justine Lida. "The mirror broken anew : the manuscript evidence for opposition to Marguerite Porete's Latin 'Mirror of simple souls' in the later Middle Ages." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6313.
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This thesis examines three manuscripts which demonstrate negative attitudes towards the Latin translation of the fourteenth-century Old French mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls, written by Marguerite Porete. Marguerite was burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310, and her Mirror was also condemned and meant to be destroyed. The Mirror survived inquisitorial efforts to exterminate it, was translated into Italian, Middle English, and Latin, and became accepted and valued by many religious circles in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Examination of the Latin manuscripts, however, demonstrates that there was also a continuing trend of opposition towards and condemnation of the Mirror, even after its original Parisian condemnation was forgotten. This level of opposition is not seen in the Mirror's other vernacular circulations, making the Latin tradition unique in the amount of censure it received. This demonstrates a multi-faceted tradition in the Mirror's circulation, showing that the Mirror, rather than entering definitively into either the realm of orthodoxy or heresy, instead had a place in both, occupying a grey area between the two. This thesis provides new and detailed information on manuscripts which have never been studied in their own right by Mirror scholars, and examines these codices' implications both for the circulation of the Latin tradition and for the history of the Mirror's post-condemnation circulation as a whole.
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García, Acosta Pablo. "Poética de la visibilidad del Mirouer Des Simples Ames de Marguer." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7448.
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Reivindicamos desde estas páginas la necesidad de reubicar el Mirouer des simples ames en su contexto medieval para restaurar sus imágenes en lo que a percepción, retórica y recepción se refiere. En este trabajo tomaremos lo textualmente visible como categoría de análisis histórico y lo justificaremos por su carácter didáctico, situándolo en contextos de difusión que no presuponían un auditorio necesariamente clerical ni letrado. Intentaremos reconstruir los aspectos visibles del Mirouer y exponer la poética de los mismos. En primer lugar, decodificaremos las imágenes a través del análisis filológico del texto para, en segundo lugar, establecer la comparación de la obra poreteana con otros documentos de la época (escritos y plásticos), lo que nos permitirá entender el posicionamiento de la obra ante su tradición expresivo-doctrinal. Propondremos una hermenéutica de lo meramente escrito a través de los mecanismos verbales que crean la visibilidad de la imagen en la obra poreteana.In this thesis we claim the recontextualization of the Mirouer des simples ames in its medieval context so that its images can be restored as far as perception, rhetoric and reception are concerned. By this work we place the text in contexts where the audience was no necessarily clerical or educated: we justify the textual visibility because of the didactic character of the device, and we take it as a category of historical analysis. We therefore reconstruct the visible aspects of the Mirouer and explain its poetics. In the first place, we decode the images through the philological analysis of the text and, in the second place, we compare the poretean work with other documents from that period (written and, mostly, visual ones). In short, we propose a hermeneutic of the mere written word through the verbal mechanisms that create the visualization of the image in the poretean work.
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Stephens, Rebecca Arianne. "Orthodoxy and liminality in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699791.
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Jatcko, Sara A. "The love of research and the gift for new weavings the work, collections, and legacy of Marguerite Porter Davison /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 183 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338863531&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Géléoc, Riwanon. "La relecture de Marguerite Porete, de Mechthilde de Magdebourg et de Hadewijch d’Anvers par Maître Eckhart." Thesis, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0366/document.
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Depuis ses débuts, la recherche eckhartienne somme toute relativement récente s'est fréquemment et assidûment penchée sur les grandes inspirations philosophiques et théologiques de Maître Eckhart; on ne compte plus les travaux valorisant les influences néoplatoniciennes, maïmonidiennes ou bien encore thomistes de la production du Maître thuringien. Celui-ci fut néanmoins inspiré par d'autres penseurs auxquels la communauté scientifique a accordé jusqu'à présent moins d'intérêt, c'est notamment le cas des mystiques rhéno-flamandes. Dans ce travail de recherche, nous nous proposerons d'analyser la pensée eckhartienne au regard de plusieurs oeuvres béguinales que sont Le Miroir des âmes simples, La lumière fluente de la Divinité ainsi que les Lettres, les Poèmes et les Visions hadewigiens afin d'affiner l'approche théologique et philosophique d'Eckhart et, ainsi, de mettre en valeur son originalité, de mieux comprendre sa quête singulière d'universalité et de mieux saisir son point d'ancrage. Comment la prodigiosité de la théologie eckhartienne s'est-elle affinée au contact de ces textes en langue vernaculaire?Overall, Eckhartian research has frequently and assiduously leaned on the great philosophical and theological inspirations of Meister Eckhart since its beginnings; works that value Neoplatonist influences, as well as those of Maimonides and the Thomists of Thuringia are no longer given a second thought. This work, however, was inspired by other thinkers to whom the scientific community has, until now, accorded less interest, such as the Rhinish-Flemish mystics, who have notably been the subjects of this kind of indifference. In this paper, we will compare Eckhartian thought to several beguine works, namely, The Mirror of Simple Souls, The Flowing Light of Divinity, as well as the letters, poems, and visions of Hadewijch of Antwerp, in order to refine Eckhart’s theological and philosophical approaches, as well as to highlight his originality, to better understand his singular quest for universality, and his point of focus. How is it that the grandness of Eckhartian theology is refined through the analysis of these texts written in the vernacular of the period?
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Bussey, Francesca Caroline. "'The World on the End of a Reed": Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3875.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis presents a new assessment of the identity and historical significance of Marguerite Porete, burned for heresy in Paris in 1310, and reconnects her to a vigorous, lay, discourse community that threatened the authority of the later medieval church. The thesis argues that a bilateral annihilation of Porete as an historical subject has been brought about by medieval and modern representations, and that this has served to obscure the presence of a subaltern religious discourse in the period. The historiography of Porete has followed distinctive stages of development that reflect, and are affected by, concurrent advances in the study of medieval female religious participation. This interplay has led to the development of a particularly influential hermeneutics that serves to exclude Porete from her contemporaries. Analysis of documentation issuing from Porete’s condemnation has similarly been influenced by hermeneutic issues that manipulate the ways in which Porete is perceived as an identity. This thesis challenges dominant representations of Porete in the scholarship and argues that Porete’s identity and discourse reflect a particularly vigorous, fluid and cross-discoursed lay engagement with religiosity that has roots in the precocious socio-religious environment of the Southern Low Countries. Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete ‘fit’ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not ‘fit’ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period. Clear links, however, have suggested a wider discourse community and some have identified her, in conjunction with those that condemned her in Paris, as a beguine. Yet this affiliation is refuted by Porete within her book and the term, as an indicator of identity, is highly problematic. This thesis explores the historiographical issues that cloud Porete’s case and offers a reassessment of the possibilities her reconnection to the major religious currents of her day presents. It will be argued that her condemnation represents a major historical development wherein the boundaries of institutionally accepted discourse were hardened at the very moment when the possibilities for religious discourse were at their peak. Porete will thus be reassessed as a major figure in an alternative religious discourse that represents the excluded voice of lay engagement in the later Middle Ages.
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O'Sullivan, Robin Anne. "Model, mirror and memorial : imitation of the passion and the annihilation of the imagination in Angela da Foligno's Liber and Marguerite Porte's Mirouer des simples âmes /." 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3060249.
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Hassim, Leila Zanobiah. "The articulation of protest in Marguerite Porete's 'The mirror of simple souls'." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19888.
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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of MA at the University of the Witwatersrand. February 2015The focus of the thesis is on the counter-cultural comments and formulations in the medieval text The Mirror of Simple Souls by Frenchwoman Marguerite Porete, who suffered execution at the stake in 1310. The thesis demonstrates how in the past and into the current reading world the text can be seen as a form of literary protest/activism. The theoretical energies for the thesis draw from accounts of the medieval female experience, and the analysis is part empirical, part Marxist-feminist and part deconstructive. The broader context explores what literary protest/activism could have meant in medieval contexts and the gender strategies that were employed. The verbal texture of the book receives sustained attention as do the power relations between the dramatis personae, and the interplay between author and translator and (un)intended audience/reader(s) is explored, particularly shifts between presumed laity and expert theological influences and audiences.
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Hassim, Leila. "A comparative study of the articulation of liminality in the vernacular theology of Julian of Norwich’s revelations of divine love and marguerite Porete’s the Mirror of simple souls." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29521.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements of Doctor of Philosophy, Johannesburg 2019This dissertation explores commonalities between Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls by looking at how the language of the two texts is employed in their descriptions of apprehending divinity. The exploration investigates the verbal textures of the texts to see where and how Julian’s and Marguerite’s ideas complement each other and thus might be similar communications regarding; apprehending divinity, how liminality seems to play a role in progress towards apprehending divinity and the idea that Revelations and The Mirror might be part of a wider dialogue that transcends time, space, culture and geography.
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