Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Marguerite Porete
Category: Religion

We know very little about Marguerite Porete, only that she was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. She might have been a solitary itinerant beguine who expounded her teachings to interested listeners.