Marguarite Porete - Mirror of Simple Souls (eBook)

The Mirror Of The Simple Souls is a book about Christian mysticism, written by Marguerite Porete. Author of the book was denounced by Christian church for heresy and was burnt to death at the stake. The book is brilliant exemplar of the love mysticism and solid part of medieval spiritual literature. The Mirror Of The Simple Soul is about love and afterlife. Author explores in poetry and prose the seven stages of purgatory person goes through before they become one with god. Today The Mirror Of The Simple Souls regarded as the highly influential work of medieval literature.

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