The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart
by
Sean L. Field
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she...