1. I have followed the translations in Sean L. Field, The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart (Notre Dame, 2012), 238.
2. See also Robert E. Lerner, The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (Notre Dame, 1972);
3. and Robert E. Lerner, “New Light on The Mirror of Simple Souls,” Speculum 85 (2010): 91–116.
4. Études de philosophie médiévale, 102;J Engen Van,2013
5. See Dyan Elliott, “Women and Confession: From Empowerment to Pathology,” in Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, ed. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski (Ithaca, 2003), 31–51 and her more expansive argument in idem., Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton, 2004).