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MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS.
MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS. | ALINE. KINER
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Set in a time when the rule of the church was closing in. Women could not live on their own unless as a nun or an outcast. But a small pocket of protection was granted to the beguines, women who lived simply with a spiritual and altruistic focus. That was all too well until Maguerite de Porete published a book of divine spiritual love. This the church took great offense to, she was burnt at the stake & the future of the beguines hangs perilously…