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- Title
Transmitting the Memory of a Medieval Heretic: Early Modern French Historians on Marguerite Porete.
- Authors
DUBOIS, DANIELLE C.
- Abstract
Modern scholars have assumed that after Marguerite Porete was condemned for heresy in 1310 she disappeared from the historical record. However, the discovery of references to Porete in François de Belleforest's Grandes annales (1579) and Henri de Sponde's Annales ecclesiastici (1641) overturns this narrative and shows that these historians were responsible for reintroducing her story to the French public. Porete offered a powerful symbol that bolstered their vision of religion and state history, a vision that emphasized the purity of the Gallican Church and the role of the state in preserving its integrity in the face of heresy. Their shaping of the memory of Porete as a heretical Beguine expands our knowledge of book history, early modern research practices, and the dissemination of historical knowledge.
- Subjects
FRANCE; PORETE, Marguerite; EARLY modern historiography; HERETICS; BELLEFOREST, Francois de, 1530-1583; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p579
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-6953625