Miroir de l'âme pécheresse

Miroir de l’âme pécheresse ("Mirror of the Sinful Soul") is a 1531 poem by Marguerite d'Angoulême. It was translated by the future Queen Elizabeth I in 1548 as A Godly Meditation of the Soul. Sorbonne theologians condemned the work as heresy. A monk said Marguerite should be sewn into a sack and thrown into the Seine. Students at the Collège de Navarre satirized her in a play as "a Fury from Hell". Her brother forced the charges to be dropped, however, and obtained an apology from the Sorbonne.

Further reading

• Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse. Discord étant en l'homme par contriariété de l'esprit et de la chair. Oraisoǹ a Nostre Seigneur Jésus Christ. Édition critique avec une introd. et des notes par Joseph L. Allaire. München W. Fink. 1972.
• Ellis, Daniel (2 December 2011). "Childhood Reflections: Elizabeth I's The Glass of the Sinful Soul and a Rhetoric of Indeterminacy". Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 37 (1): 31–49. doi:10.1163/23526963-95000400. ISSN 0098-2474.
• Ferguson, Gary; McKinley, Mary B., eds. (1 January 2013), "Opening and Closing Reflections: The Miroir de l'âme pécheresse and the Miroir de Jésus-Christ crucifié", A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre, BRILL, pp. 109–159, doi:10.1163/9789004250505_006, ISBN 978-90-04-25050-5, retrieved 3 February 2022
• Skenazi, Cynthia (1993). "Les Annotations en Marge du Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse". Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. 55 (2): 255–270. ISSN 0006-1999. JSTOR 20679454.
• Snyder, Susan (1997). "Guilty Sisters: Marguerite de Navarre, Elizabeth of England, and the Miroir de l'âme Pécheresse". Renaissance Quarterly. 50 (2): 443–458. doi:10.2307/3039186. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 3039186.

See also

• The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul