Graduation Year
2021
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Late Antique-Medieval Studies
Second Department
French Studies
Reader 1
Ken Wolf
Reader 2
Nathalie Rachlin
Abstract
What led Marguerite Porete to write such a daring book? Although we can never know her inner thoughts and motivations, we can examine the intellectual and social worlds in which we know she existed. Although the Mirror and the records of Marguerite’s trial have received a great deal of scholarly attention, there have not been many efforts to understand Marguerite as a historical figure through the contexts she lived in. I attempt to put Marguerite back into the world she came from by examining her life and work through the different contexts in which she lived – her background as a beguine, her status as a female mystical writer, and the Capetian court politics that were always at work on the margins of her heresy trial.
Recommended Citation
Hart, Gillian, "An 'Obstinate and Stubborn Woman': The Beguine Clergesse Marguerite Porete and Le Miroir des Ames Simples et Aneanties" (2021). Scripps Senior Theses. 1673.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1673
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
