Veridiction in the Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.3.1.77-99Keywords:
Marguerite Porete, Mirror of Simple Souls, Michel Foucault, mysticism, veridictionAbstract
The article looks at Marguerite Porete and her Mirror of Simple Souls through the lens of Michel Foucault’s ideas of veridiction, and its four distinctive types: prophecy, wisdom, teaching, and parrhesia. Even in their hybrid forms, these modes were still tied to specific institutions of truth-telling, with particular participants, spheres of address, and manners of speaking. The article looks at Marguerite’s trial and the central tenets of her work within this framework, and recognizes her mysticism as an attempt to carve out a new space within existing regimes of truth-telling; she does so by relying on the medium of the book or, specifically, a strategic interrelation of body and writing.
Downloads
References
Primarni viri
Alberigo, Giuseppe, Perikles P. Joannou, Claudio Leonardi in Paolo Prodi, izd. Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1962.
Babinsky, Ellen, prev. in uvod. Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.
Guarnieri, Romana, in Paul Verdeyen, ur. Marguerite Porete: Speculum simplicium animarum / Le mirouer des simples âmes. Corpus Christianorum – continuatio mediaevalis 69. Turnhout: Brepols, 1986.
*****
Sekundarni viri
Blamires, Alcuin. »Woman Not to Preach: A Disputation in British Library MS Harley 31.«The Journal of Medieval Latin 3 (1993): 34–63.
Blatt, Heather. Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
——— . Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 16. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
———. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books, 1991.
Čeferin, Urška. »Marguerite Porete in njeno Ogledalo«. Diplomsko delo. Univerza na Primorskem,2005.
——— . »Marguerite Porete in njeno Ogledalo preprostih duš.« Poligrafi 10.39/40 (2005): 203–225.
De Gier, Inke. »The Role of the Mirror of Simple Souls as a Book«. V: A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls. Boston: Brill, 2017, 120–150.
Epiney-Burgard, Georgette, in Emilie Zum Brunn. Božje trubadurke: Mistikinje srednjega veka. Prevedla Milica Kač. Ljubljana: KUD Logos, 2018.
Field, Sean L. The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trial of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
——— . »Debating the Historical Marguerite Porete«. V: A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls, 9–37. Boston: Brill, 2017.
——— . »The Inquisitor Ralph of Ligny, Two German Templars, and Marguerite Porete«. Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 39/1 (2013): 1–22.
Foucault, Michel. Neustrašni govor. Ljubljana: Sophia, 2009.
——— . The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the College de France 1983-1984. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Guarnieri, Romana. »Lo Specchio delle anime semplici e Margherita Poirette«. Osservatore Romano (1946): 3. Ponatis v »Il Movimento del Libero Spirito: Testi e documenti«. Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 4 (1965): 661–663.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., in Susan Marti, ur. Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Jantzen, Grace. Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Juilfs, Jonathan H. »Mirrors on the Wall«. V: A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls, 323–337. Boston: Brill, 2017.
Kangas, David. »Dangerous Joy: Marguerite Porete’s Good-bye to the Virtues«. Journal of Religion 91.3 (2011): 299–319.
Kocher, Zan. »Literary Sources of the Mirror of Simple Souls«. V: A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls, 96–119. Boston: Brill, 2017.
Kocijančič Nike, prev. in uvod. Knjiga Margery Kempe. Ljubljana: KUD Logos, 2006.
Kruger, Steven F. The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Lochrie, Karma. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
MacGregor, Kirk. »1 Corinthians 14:33b-38 as a Pauline Quotation-Refutation Device«. Priscilla Papers 32 (2018), 23–28.
Mizruchi, Ephraim H. Regulating Society: Beguines, Bohemians, and Other Marginals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Newman, Barbara. »Annihilation and Authorship: Three Women Mystics of the 1290s«. Speculum 91/3, (2016): 591–630.
Petroff, Elizabeth. Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women, and Mysticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Power, Eileen. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275–1535. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
Podlesnik, Tamara. »Med neizrekljivostjo in telesom: Srednjeveška mističarka v luči psihoanalize, feminizma in literature«. Doktorska disertacija, Univerza v Ljubljani, 2020.
Robinson, Joanne Maguire. Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Roest, Bert. »Female Preaching in the Late Medieval Franciscan Tradition«. Franciscan Studies 62 (2004): 119–154.
Röckelein, Hedwig. »Founders, Donors, and Saints: Patrons of Nuns’ Convents«. V: Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, 207–224. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Rösener, Werner. »Household and Prayer: Medieval Convents as Economic Entities«. V: Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, 245–258. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Rubin, Miri. »Choosing Death? Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Europe«. V: Martyrs and Martyrologies: Papers Read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, ur. Diana Wood, 153–183. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Scarborough, »Critical Approaches to Marguerite Porete«. V: A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls, 295–322. Boston: Brill, 2017.
Staley Johnson, Lynn. »The Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe«. Speculum 66/4 (1991): 820–838.
Terry, Wendy R., in Robert Stauffer, ur. A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls. Boston: Brill, 2017.
Vaneigem, Raoul. The Movement of the Free Spirit. New York: Zone Books, 1994.
Verdeyen, Paul. »Le procès de l’Inquisition contre Marguerite Porete et Guiard de Cressonessart (1309–10)«. Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 81 (1986): 47–94.
Watson, Nicholas, in Jacqueline Jenkins, ur. The Writings of Julian of Norwich. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2006.
Wilson, Katharina, ur. in uvod. Medieval Women Writers. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Iva Jevtić
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1) Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in Clotho by Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). The author’s name will be evident in the article in the journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in the hands of the publisher.
2) Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In the case of claims by third parties, authors commit themselves to defend the interests of the publisher and shall cover any potential costs.
3) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
4) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
5) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
