Season 4, Episode 8: Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls: Interview with Geneviève Barrette

In this episode Jacinta speaks with Dr Geneviève Barrette, postdoctoral researcher at Mcgill University, about Marguerite Porete, a turn-of-the-fourteenth-century mystic thinker. We focus on the context and content of Porete’s only surviving work, an edification treatise entitled The Mirror of Simple Souls.