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The question of the place of ›The Mirror of Simple Souls‹ in the English tradition of spirituality has always been a complex one, in part because the discovery of the ›Mirror‹ in England and the scholarly assessment of its value have occurred in reverse order to its original transmission. A brief review, therefore, of both the transmission of the ›Mirror‹ and the modern scholarship on it may help to keep things straight. The ›Mirouer des simples âmes anienties‹ is generally agreed to be the book for the repeated circulation of which Margaret Porete, a »beguine clergesse« of Hainault or Valenciennes, was condemned as a relapsed heretic in Paris on May 30, 1310, and handed over to the civil authorities for execution. The official account of her examination on April 11 records the first and fifteenth of the statements for which she was condemned: and
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