Edmund Garratt Gardner
Published: 2018-01-17
Total Pages: 168
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Excerpt from The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Rom 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. Meister Eckhart (d. Johannes Tauler (d. And Heinrich Suso (d. In Flanders, Jan Ruysbroelt (cl. In Italy, Dante Alighieri himself (d. Jac0pone da Todi (d. St. Catherine of Siena (d. And many lesser writers who strove, in prose or in poetry, to express the hidden things of the Spirit, the secret inter course oi the human soul with the Divine, no longer in the ofiicial 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. 1 In England, the great names of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole (d. Of Walter Hilton (d. And of Mother juliana of Norwich, whose Revelation: of Divine Love professedly date from 1373, speak for themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.