> Christopher Abbott wrote:
>
> I know that the 'Mirror for Simple Souls' has in the past been
> attributed to Marguerite Porete, but I wonder where scholarships
> stands today ont his issue, if anywhere. Has her authorship been
> confirmed, or definitively unconfirmed - if either of these, on
> what grounds.
Confirmed from a variety of sources. An excellent translation and
comparison of versions preserved in various languages has just come out:
_The Mirror of Simple Souls_, by Edmund Colledge, Jack Marler, and
Judith Grant, U. Notre Dame Press, 1999. In addition to the translators'
introductory interpretive essay, it includes a foreword by Kent Emery,
Jr. These explain in detail why the book is attributed to Margaret.
Chuck Blatchley
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