Marguerite par-delà les maîtres ou l'amour philosophe

Abstract

Marguerite Porete may have been described as a “clergesse”, but she never presented herself as a philosopher. Yet her book, Miroir des simples âmes, can be read philosophically. The precision with which she addresses the theological controversies of her time suggests that she was familiar with these debates, which were agitating the university at the time her book was written. By carefully analyzing the passages dedicated to voluntary poverty and the Eucharist, we will show that this knowledge is real, and that it converges towards an Augustinian and Dionysian orientation in Porete’s thought.