Depuis ses débuts, la recherche eckhartienne somme toute relativement récente s'est fréquemment et assidûment penchée sur les grandes inspirations philosophiques et théologiques de Maître Eckhart; on ne compte plus les travaux valorisant les influences néoplatoniciennes, maïmonidiennes ou bien encore thomistes de la production du Maître thuringien. Celui-ci fut néanmoins inspiré par d'autres penseurs auxquels la communauté scientifique a accordé jusqu'à présent moins d'intérêt, c'est notamment le cas des mystiques rhéno-flamandes. Dans ce travail de recherche, nous nous proposerons d'analyser la pensée eckhartienne au regard de plusieurs oeuvres béguinales que sont Le Miroir des âmes simples, La lumière fluente de la Divinité ainsi que les Lettres, les Poèmes et les Visions hadewigiens afin d'affiner l'approche théologique et philosophique d'Eckhart et, ainsi, de mettre en valeur son originalité, de mieux comprendre sa quête singulière d'universalité et de mieux saisir son point d'ancrage. Comment la prodigiosité de la théologie eckhartienne s'est-elle affinée au contact de ces textes en langue vernaculaire? / Overall, Eckhartian research has frequently and assiduously leaned on the great philosophical and theological inspirations of Meister Eckhart since its beginnings; works that value Neoplatonist influences, as well as those of Maimonides and the Thomists of Thuringia are no longer given a second thought. This work, however, was inspired by other thinkers to whom the scientific community has, until now, accorded less interest, such as the Rhinish-Flemish mystics, who have notably been the subjects of this kind of indifference. In this paper, we will compare Eckhartian thought to several beguine works, namely, The Mirror of Simple Souls, The Flowing Light of Divinity, as well as the letters, poems, and visions of Hadewijch of Antwerp, in order to refine Eckhart’s theological and philosophical approaches, as well as to highlight his originality, to better understand his singular quest for universality, and his point of focus. How is it that the grandness of Eckhartian theology is refined through the analysis of these texts written in the vernacular of the period?

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis presents a new assessment of the identity and historical significance of Marguerite Porete, burned for heresy in Paris in 1310, and reconnects her to a vigorous, lay, discourse community that threatened the authority of the later medieval church. The thesis argues that a bilateral annihilation of Porete as an historical subject has been brought about by medieval and modern representations, and that this has served to obscure the presence of a subaltern religious discourse in the period. The historiography of Porete has followed distinctive stages of development that reflect, and are affected by, concurrent advances in the study of medieval female religious participation. This interplay has led to the development of a particularly influential hermeneutics that serves to exclude Porete from her contemporaries. Analysis of documentation issuing from Porete’s condemnation has similarly been influenced by hermeneutic issues that manipulate the ways in which Porete is perceived as an identity. This thesis challenges dominant representations of Porete in the scholarship and argues that Porete’s identity and discourse reflect a particularly vigorous, fluid and cross-discoursed lay engagement with religiosity that has roots in the precocious socio-religious environment of the Southern Low Countries. Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete ‘fit’ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not ‘fit’ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period. Clear links, however, have suggested a wider discourse community and some have identified her, in conjunction with those that condemned her in Paris, as a beguine. Yet this affiliation is refuted by Porete within her book and the term, as an indicator of identity, is highly problematic. This thesis explores the historiographical issues that cloud Porete’s case and offers a reassessment of the possibilities her reconnection to the major religious currents of her day presents. It will be argued that her condemnation represents a major historical development wherein the boundaries of institutionally accepted discourse were hardened at the very moment when the possibilities for religious discourse were at their peak. Porete will thus be reassessed as a major figure in an alternative religious discourse that represents the excluded voice of lay engagement in the later Middle Ages.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis presents a new assessment of the identity and historical significance of Marguerite Porete, burned for heresy in Paris in 1310, and reconnects her to a vigorous, lay, discourse community that threatened the authority of the later medieval church. The thesis argues that a bilateral annihilation of Porete as an historical subject has been brought about by medieval and modern representations, and that this has served to obscure the presence of a subaltern religious discourse in the period. The historiography of Porete has followed distinctive stages of development that reflect, and are affected by, concurrent advances in the study of medieval female religious participation. This interplay has led to the development of a particularly influential hermeneutics that serves to exclude Porete from her contemporaries. Analysis of documentation issuing from Porete’s condemnation has similarly been influenced by hermeneutic issues that manipulate the ways in which Porete is perceived as an identity. This thesis challenges dominant representations of Porete in the scholarship and argues that Porete’s identity and discourse reflect a particularly vigorous, fluid and cross-discoursed lay engagement with religiosity that has roots in the precocious socio-religious environment of the Southern Low Countries. Central to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete ‘fit’ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not ‘fit’ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period. Clear links, however, have suggested a wider discourse community and some have identified her, in conjunction with those that condemned her in Paris, as a beguine. Yet this affiliation is refuted by Porete within her book and the term, as an indicator of identity, is highly problematic. This thesis explores the historiographical issues that cloud Porete’s case and offers a reassessment of the possibilities her reconnection to the major religious currents of her day presents. It will be argued that her condemnation represents a major historical development wherein the boundaries of institutionally accepted discourse were hardened at the very moment when the possibilities for religious discourse were at their peak. Porete will thus be reassessed as a major figure in an alternative religious discourse that represents the excluded voice of lay engagement in the later Middle Ages.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Also available in print form. Includes bibliography.

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.