Marguerite Porete

Country

Belgium, Holy Roman Empire, France

Languages

Old French

Dates

1258 — 1310

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Marguerite Porete was a Beguine, a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial for refusing to remove her book from circulation or to recant her views.