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Tables of Contents for Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls
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Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
xi
 
Nobility as Historical Reality and Theological Motif
1
26
Reconstructing the Medieval Nobility
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: The Beauty of High Birth
Hildegard of Bingen: Elitism Upheld
Bernard of Clairvaux: Egalitarianism Upheld
Le Roman de la Rose: The Nobility of Virtue
Hadewijch of Brabant: The Soul's Noble Image and Likeness
The ``Beguine Clergeresse'' and Her Mirror
27
22
Neither Lowly Writer Nor Lowly Reader
The Text of The Mirror of Simple Souls
The Seven-Stage Path to Annihilation
``Taking Leave of the Virtues'' and Possessing All
God, the Soul, and No-Thingness
49
28
God as Trinitarian Ground and Creator
The Roots of a Theological Anthropology
Creation and Fall of Humanity
Fall(s) and Return(s)
Nobility and Annihilation
77
24
The Three Beautiful Considerations
Annihilation: The Soul Without a Why
Traditional Mystical Metaphors
Nobility, Lineage, and Annihilation
A ``Simple'' Noble Soul?
Conclusion
101
8
Appendix
109
2
Notes
111
50
Bibliography
161
14
Index
175