Marguerite Porete
CountryBelgium, Holy Roman Empire, France
LanguagesOld French
Dates1258 — 1310
female author
medieval europe
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.— Wikipedia
