This dissertation traces the intellectual and cultural lineage of Marguerite Porete's late thirteenth-century text, the Mirouer des simples ames, to reveal its purpose as a tool for spiritual practice. By exploring Porete's engagement with Old French literature, sermons, dialogue, and poetry, I demonstrate her didactic approach to spiritual transformation. Drawing on the trope of annihilation in the monastic tradition, Porete creates a theological guidebook that emphasizes a novel conception of the annihilated soul ( ame anéantie) as object and locus of transformation. The examination of hitherto neglected technical language uncovers a model of intellection that demonstrates the influence of scholastic concepts on Porete's thought. Porete models the journey of the annihilated soul on the Neoplatonic paradigm of the created entity returning to its source and borrows themes from the work of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to provide the soul with a method for coming to God. Furthermore Porete's religious practice relies on the repetition of spiritual exercises, entailing an understanding of salvation dependent not on obtaining eternal life after death but on the present. This dissertation takes our understanding of the Mirror beyond the traditional interpretation of it as inspired by vernacular love lyric and contributes to reframing both the role of women in the medieval community of knowledge and the intellectual rigor of lay elite spirituality.
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机译：本论文追溯了玛格丽特·波雷特（Marguerite Porete）十三世纪后期的著作《 Mirouer des simples ames》的思想和文化血统，以揭示其作为修行之道的目的。通过探究波雷特对古法国文学，讲道，对话和诗歌的参与，我展示了波雷特对精神转变的教学方法。普罗特（Porete）借鉴修道院传统中的灭之音，创作了一本神学指南，着重强调了the灭的灵魂（ameanéantie）作为转变的对象和轨迹的新颖概念。对迄今为止被忽略的技术语言的研究揭示了一种智力模型，该模型证明了学术观念对波雷特思想的影响。珀特（Porete）以被创造的实体返回其源头的新柏拉图范式为the灭的灵魂的旅程建模，并借鉴了Areopagite拟人狄奥尼修斯的作品主题，为灵魂提供了一种通往神的方法。此外，波雷特（Porete）的宗教实践依赖于精神练习的重复，使人们对救恩的理解不取决于死后获得永生，而取决于现在。这篇论文使我们对《镜子》的理解超出了传统的对白话爱情歌词的启发，并且有助于重新定义女性在中世纪知识界的作用以及对外行精英灵性思想的严格要求。
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