This edition of "The Mirror of the Simple Souls" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account.[...]

"This study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation - the complete transformative union of the soul into God - in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a rela[...]