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Margaret Porette (circa 1248/1250–1310) was a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of spirituality dealing with Divine Love. She was burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after refusing to recant her views.

Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. (1910–1999), was a priest of the Augustinian Friars in England and professor emeritus, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.

J. C. Marleris associate professor in the department of philosophy and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and assistant Vatican film librarian at Saint Louis University. 

Judith Grant is a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland and the author of La Passiun de seint Edmund.

Kent Emery, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.