This thesis examines three manuscripts which demonstrate negative attitudes towards the Latin translation of the fourteenth-century Old French mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls, written by Marguerite Porete. Marguerite was burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310, and her Mirror was also condemned and meant to be destroyed. The Mirror survived inquisitorial efforts to exterminate it, was translated into Italian, Middle English, and Latin, and became accepted and valued by many religious circles in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Examination of the Latin manuscripts, however, demonstrates that there was also a continuing trend of opposition towards and condemnation of the Mirror, even after its original Parisian condemnation was forgotten. This level of opposition is not seen in the Mirror's other vernacular circulations, making the Latin tradition unique in the amount of censure it received. This demonstrates a multi-faceted tradition in the Mirror's circulation, showing that the Mirror, rather than entering definitively into either the realm of orthodoxy or heresy, instead had a place in both, occupying a grey area between the two. This thesis provides new and detailed information on manuscripts which have never been studied in their own right by Mirror scholars, and examines these codices' implications both for the circulation of the Latin tradition and for the history of the Mirror's post-condemnation circulation as a whole.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maruzania Soares Dias.pdf: 3780218 bytes, checksum: 08c5254231f62b64ab99b9e197aca369 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-18 / This dissertation examines, from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the jouissance of God in the work of Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls. The aim was to understand the mystical jouissance as a face of jouissance feminine and to investigate the hypothesis of the mystical jouissance in the work of Porete considered as ethical jouissance. The mystique found in this compelling book, written in the language of Courtly Love and developed as an allegory that addresses the itinerary of the protagonist Alma in her search of the perfect union with God, is sustained by the assumptions of apophatic mysticism - the dynamics of Christian mystical experience that is expressed as of empty budget. With nothing to hold her, the soul becomes nothing. The experience of mystical ecstasy allows, for a brief moment, the jouissance of God, the jouissance of this glorification, where time and eternity come together as a causeway linking the created and uncreated. By demonstrating the centrality of jouissance in the subjective economy, Lacanian psychoanalysis has established the field of jouissance and reformulated the difference between the genders providing a place that, until now, never existed for females: the logic of all-non phallic, where there is a plus-de-jouir, a jouissance that goes beyond the phallic reference. As this Other's jouissance is impossible to symbolize, we have the love as a substitute to the lack of sexual relationship between sex, given that logic Lacanian will show us that Woman does not exist 1, while universal category, which is a correlate of the enunciation there is no sexual relationship , therefore, that is no sexual proportion / A presente dissertação analisa, pela abordagem da psicanálise lacaniana, o gozo de Deus na obra de Marguerite Porete, O Espelho das Almas Simples e Aniquiladas e que Permanecem Somente na Vontade e no Desejo do Amor. O objetivo foi compreender o gozo místico como uma face do gozo feminino e averiguar a hipótese de ser o gozo místico na obra de Porete um gozo estabelecido numa posição ética. A mística encontrada neste livro instigante, escrito na linguagem do Amor Cortês e desenvolvido numa alegoria que aborda o itinerário da protagonista Alma em sua busca da perfeita união com Deus, é sustentada pelos pressupostos da mística apofática dinâmica da mística cristã que se expressa como experiência de esvaziamento. Sem nada reter de seu, a Alma torna-se nada. A experiência do êxtase místico permite, por um breve momento, o gozo de Deus, o gozo dessa glorificação, onde tempo e eternidade se fundem como um istmo que vincula o criado e o incriado. Ao demonstrar a centralidade do gozo na economia subjetiva, a psicanálise lacaniana estabeleceu o campo do gozo e reformulou a diferença entre os sexos possibilitando um lugar até então inexistente para o feminino: a lógica do não-todo fálico, onde há um mais-gozar, um gozo que vai além da referência fálica. Dado que esse gozo do Outro é impossível de simbolizar, temos o amor como suplência à inexistência da relação sexual, uma vez que a lógica lacaniana vai nos mostrar que , enquanto categoria universal, A Mulher não existe , que é correlato do enunciado não há relação sexual , isto é, não há proporção sexual

Reivindicamos desde estas páginas la necesidad de reubicar el Mirouer des simples ames en su contexto medieval para restaurar sus imágenes en lo que a percepción, retórica y recepción se refiere. En este trabajo tomaremos lo textualmente visible como categoría de análisis histórico y lo justificaremos por su carácter didáctico, situándolo en contextos de difusión que no presuponían un auditorio necesariamente clerical ni letrado. Intentaremos reconstruir los aspectos visibles del Mirouer y exponer la poética de los mismos. En primer lugar, decodificaremos las imágenes a través del análisis filológico del texto para, en segundo lugar, establecer la comparación de la obra poreteana con otros documentos de la época (escritos y plásticos), lo que nos permitirá entender el posicionamiento de la obra ante su tradición expresivo-doctrinal. Propondremos una hermenéutica de lo meramente escrito a través de los mecanismos verbales que crean la visibilidad de la imagen en la obra poreteana. / In this thesis we claim the recontextualization of the Mirouer des simples ames in its medieval context so that its images can be restored as far as perception, rhetoric and reception are concerned. By this work we place the text in contexts where the audience was no necessarily clerical or educated: we justify the textual visibility because of the didactic character of the device, and we take it as a category of historical analysis. We therefore reconstruct the visible aspects of the Mirouer and explain its poetics. In the first place, we decode the images through the philological analysis of the text and, in the second place, we compare the poretean work with other documents from that period (written and, mostly, visual ones). In short, we propose a hermeneutic of the mere written word through the verbal mechanisms that create the visualization of the image in the poretean work.

Marguerite Porete a su, avec son Mirouer des simples ames anienties écrit entre la fin du XIIIe et le début du XIVe siècle, transformer le discours théologique en une œuvre mystique singulière en français, qui se présente comme une quête spirituelle de l’Âme, dont les guides, Amour et Raison, se disputent le discours jusqu’à ce que l’Amour divin l’emporte et que l’Âme s’anéantisse en lui. Cette étude s’attache à briser la surface miroitante de l’œuvre, pour réfléchir à la senefiance de ce « miroir » offert au lecteur. S’il ne s’agit pas ici de proposer une nouvelle analyse historique et théologique des propos hérétiques de Marguerite Porete, ce mémoire suggère une lecture du Mirouer d’un point de vue littéraire. Son point de départ se situe dans le constat que le texte propose une voix féminine doublement à la marge, par son genre et par sa langue, le français, pour un propos théologique. L’idée a donc été de voir jusqu’où pouvait être utilisée l’image du miroir et comment le conflit présent dans sa double nature, celle d’objet optique de savoir et celle d’objet courtois, pouvait être exploré pour comprendre le texte. Par l’observation détaillée des composantes courtoises et allégoriques de l’œuvre, nous espérons dégager les particularités d’un traité dont les formes du discours joignent théologie et littérature dans un ensemble mystique qui se distingue des œuvres didactiques et spirituelles traditionnelles. En relevant les éléments constitutifs de l’ouvrage, en regard d’un genre didactique attesté, celui du miroir, nous voulons démontrer comment cette tradition se confronte et s’unit à un langage courtois et lyrique, ce qui permet de proposer un enseignement théologique particulier puisqu’il prône, avec l’anéantissement de la raison, son propre anéantissement. De cette manière, nous proposons de réfléchir sur l’élaboration de ce discours mystique par l’intermédiaire de ses attributs courtois et allégoriques afin de mieux saisir l’édification de ce Mirouer original. / Marguerite Porete, with her Mirouer written between the 13th and the 14th century, has managed to transform the theological discourse into a singular mystical work in French, which presents itself as a spiritual quest of the Soul, whose guides, Love and Reason, compete for the discursive preeminence until Divine Love prevails and the soul is annihilated in him. This study seeks to break the shimmering surface of the work, to reflect on the senefiance of this "mirror" offered to the reader. If it is not a question here of proposing a new historical and theological analysis of Marguerite Porete's heretical remarks, this memoir suggests a reading of the Mirouer from a literary point of view. Its starting point lies in the observation that the text proposes a female voice doubly marginal, by its genre and by its language, French, for a theological purpose. The idea was therefore to see how far the image of the mirror could be used and how the conflict present in its dual nature, that of an optical object of knowledge and that of a courteous object, could help to understand the text. Through detailed observation of the courtly and allegorical components of the work, we hope to identify the peculiarities of a treatise whose forms of discourse join theology and literature in a mystical ensemble that differs from traditional didactic and spiritual works. By highlighting the constituent elements of the book, in relation to a known didactic genre, that of the mirror, we want to demonstrate how this tradition confronts itself to and unites with a courteous and lyrical language, which makes it possible to propose an original theological teaching since it advocates, with the annihilation of reason, its own annihilation. In this way, we propose to reflect on the elaboration of this mystical discourse through its courteous and allegorical attributes in order to better understand the construction of this original Mirouer.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ceci Maria Costa Baptista Mariani.pdf: 836983 bytes, checksum: 9488e81f23d9e2c3fb66f730fdb5aef6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The point of departure for this study was the work Le Mirouer des Simples Ames by Marguerite Porete, who belonged to a religious order in the region of The Rhine and who, according to history, lived between the second half of the XIII century and the beginning of the XIV century. It is a stimulating work which makes an important contribution to philosophical, theological and literary thinking. Our aim in this study was to explore the Christian mystic, which reached its peak in the late Middle Ages, to deepen the perception of this dynamic which is expressed as an experience of annihilation and to perceive how it unfolds in the theology. The more specific objective was to go deeper into the meaning of Marguerite Porete´s theological thinking, fundamentally mystical, and her contribution to systematic theology today, which intends not only to unite concepts and theological theory, but also to be a theology attentive to historical experience, the objective site of God´s presence, but which in spite of this, has confronted the risk of losing its contemplative dimension, the subjective site of a mystic encounter with God, thus freely transcending historical time and space. Our theological reading of Mirouer led us to perceive that the great contribution from this work lies in the explicitness of the relation between self-deprivation and liberty on the one hand and on the other, the bold affirmation that God is Graciousness, a God of delicacy, sweetness and goodness, in a world whose favored image of God is that of the almighty Father, at one time director, protector and fount of authority, a God of great majesty who remains in heaven and occasionally extends his hand across the clouds. To the God who leads an army constituted of angels and saints who exercise an intermediary function and manifest his protective and judging omnipresence, Marguerite announces the Loin-près, He who from his absolute transcendence, through graciousness, comes to us and transforms us for communion with Him / O ponto de partida dessa pesquisa foi a obra Le Mirouer des Simples Ames de Marguerite Porete, uma beguina cleriga, da região do Reno e que, segundo consta, viveu entre a segunda metade do século XIII e início do século XIV. Uma obra instigante que traz uma contribuição importante para o pensamento filosófico-teológico e literário. Nosso objetivo, com esse estudo, foi sondar a mística cristã que atinge seu ápice na alta idade média, aprofundar a percepção dessa dinâmica, que se expressa como experiência de aniquilamento, e perceber como ela se desdobra em teologia. O objetivo mais específico foi aprofundar o significado do pensamento teológico de Marguerite Porete, fundamentalmente místico, e sua contribuição para teologia sistemática hoje que pretende ser mais que reunião de conceitos, teologia teórica, mas teologia que está atenta para a experiência histórica, lugar objetivo de presença de Deus, mas que, apesar disso, tem enfrentado o risco de perder sua dimensão contemplativa, lugar subjetivo do encontro místico com Deus, transcendência livre do espaço e do tempo, portanto da história. Nossa leitura teológica do Mirouer levou-nos a perceber que a grande contribuição da obra reside na explicitação da relação entre despojamento de si e liberdade por um lado e por outro, na ousada afirmação de que Deus é Cortesia, Deus de delicadeza, doçura e bondade, num mundo cuja imagem privilegiada de Deus é o Pai poderoso, a um tempo diretor e protetor, fonte de autoridade, Deus de grande majestade que permanece no céu e que eventualmente mostra sua mão através das nuvens. Ao Deus que está à frente de um exército constituído de santos e anjos que exercem a função de intermediários e que manifestam sua onipresença protetora e julgadora, Marguerite anuncia o Loin-près, aquele que desde a sua absoluta transcendência, por cortesia, vem a nós e nos transforma para a comunhão com ele