Specular Mediation and Loingprès: A Symbolic Hermeneutics of the Imago Dei in Marguerite Porete
This article examines the symbolism of the mirror in Marguerite Porete’s Le Mirouer des simples ames and argues that the mirror does not function as an isolated metaphor of self-knowledge, but as the form of a mediation in which presence takes place through distance. Drawing on the French Chantilly manuscript, the stud...