The Silence of Marguerite – The Renaissance #242
About this episode
The episode discusses the Beguine movement and the life of Marguerite Porete, highlighting her trial and the impact of her writings.
The Beguines were a movement of independent women who lived like nuns, owned property, preached in the vernacular, and answered to no man or church…. which, predictably, the church absolutely could not stand. We work through three of the great Beguine mystics, including Marguerite Porete, who spent 18 months on trial giving the Inquisition the silent finger before being burned alive in Paris in 1310. Her book survived, was read seriously by theologians for centuries, and wasn’t definitively credited to her until 1946 because obviously a woman couldn’t have written anything that sophisticated. The post The Silence of Marguerite – The Renaissance #242 appeared first on The Renaissance Times .
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