Marguerite, Porete Essays
The Mirror of Simple Souls: Marguerite Porete's Voice and Use of Gender
The Mirror of Simple Souls
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....