Premium Content The Mirror of Simple Souls: Marguerite Porete's Voice and Use of Gender
By Amanda Byrd - March 17, 2006
Let your women keep silence in the churches:
for it is not permitted unto them to speak.
-I Corinthians 14:34
It is a good thing that women religious writers, especially Marguerite Porete, did not listen to this scripture and spoke up in church. While all women mystics are quite different from each other, they all share the common idea of the…
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