Christological transformation in The Mirror of Souls, by Marguerite Porete

43 The secondary literature is growing: see not only Robinson and McGinn, noted above, but also Amy Hollywood, The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame, 1995); Michael Sells, Mystical Languages of Unsaying (University of Chicago, 1994); Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, ed. Bernard McGinn (New York: Continuum, 1994); Peter Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). None of the studies noted here has focused on the christological dimensions of the Mirror, however.

Ellen Babinsky is Professor of Church History at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. This essay is Professor Babinsky's inaugural address, given in April 2003.

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