Maybe you'd be interested in the Porete Home Page
The address is
http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/porete.html
George
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From: RA Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Παρασκευή, 5 Φεβρουαρίου 1999 12:21 μμ
Subject: Re: abyss
Dear Claudia,
Although I can't add anything to Bill East's reply, I gather from your
message that you are interested in other occurrences of the notion of
the 'abyss'.
In Marguerite Porete's fourteenth century treatise "Le Mirouer des
Simples Ames Aneanties", which is characterised by a neo-platonic
negative theology, and may have been influenced by Bernard's thought, the
idea of the 'abyss of humility', into which the soul is cast when she
realises the unbridgeable gap which distances her from God, is a central
premise. The rhetoric of the treatise is typically playful and serious by
turns, and this leads her to make a profusion of puns and word-games with
'abime' (noun: abyss; verb: to be 'abyssed', 'debased').
I hope that this is of use to your study.
Rebecca A. Stephens
University of Birmingham.
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