Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls

by Robinson, Joanne Maguire

• ISBN13: 9780791449677
• ISBN10: 079144967X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780791490693
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Author Biography

Joanne Maguire Robinson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Nobility as Historical Reality and Theological Motif	1	(26)
Reconstructing the Medieval Nobility
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: The Beauty of High Birth
Hildegard of Bingen: Elitism Upheld
Bernard of Clairvaux: Egalitarianism Upheld
Le Roman de la Rose: The Nobility of Virtue
Hadewijch of Brabant: The Soul's Noble Image and Likeness
The ``Beguine Clergeresse'' and Her Mirror	27	(22)
Neither Lowly Writer Nor Lowly Reader
The Text of The Mirror of Simple Souls
The Seven-Stage Path to Annihilation
``Taking Leave of the Virtues'' and Possessing All
God, the Soul, and No-Thingness	49	(28)
God as Trinitarian Ground and Creator
The Roots of a Theological Anthropology
Creation and Fall of Humanity
Fall(s) and Return(s)
Nobility and Annihilation	77	(24)
The Three Beautiful Considerations
Annihilation: The Soul Without a Why
Traditional Mystical Metaphors
Nobility, Lineage, and Annihilation
A ``Simple'' Noble Soul?
Conclusion	101	(8)
Appendix	109	(2)
Notes	111	(50)
Bibliography	161	(14)
Index	175