The Cell of Self Knowledge: Seven Early English Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 - Couverture souple

Pepwell, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 154426237X ISBN 13 : 9781544262376

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

FROM the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century may be called the golden age of mystical literature in the vernacular. In Germany, we find Mechthild of Magdeburg (d. 1277), Meister Eckhart (d. 1327), Johannes Tauler (d. 1361), and Heinrich Suso (d. 1365); in Flanders, Jan Ruysbroek (d. 1381); in Italy, Dante Alighieri himself (d. 1321), Jacopone da Todi (d. 1306), St. Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), and many lesser writers who strove, in prose or in poetry, to express the hidden things of the spirit, the secret intercourse of the human soul with the Divine, no longer in the official Latin of the Church, but in the language of their own people, "a man's own vernacular," which "is nearest to him, inasmuch as it is most closely united to him." In England, the great names of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole (d. 1349), of Walter Hilton (d. 1396), and of Mother Juliana of Norwich, whose Revelations of Divine Love professedly date from 1373, speak for themselves.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 154426237X
• ISBN 13: 9781544262376
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Éditeur: Gardner Edmund G, Hermenegild TOSF Brother
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