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Meister Eckhart · 1294–1327 · Sermon
The Latin sermons of Meister Eckhart are the preaching of a Dominican master of theology to hearers trained in Latin — fellow friars, students, clergy gathered at chapters and synods — and…
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Marguerite d'Oingt · 1294 · Treatise
The Speculum, or Mirror, is a short visionary treatise by Marguerite d'Oingt, a Carthusian nun who served as prioress of the charterhouse of Poleteins, near Lyon, until her death in 1310. She…
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Meister Eckhart · 1294–1298 · Treatise
The "Talks of Instruction" represents Meister Eckhart's earliest systematic theological work, composed during his initial tenure as prior of the Dominican convent at Erfurt in the final years of the thirteenth century.…
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Ramon Llull · 1295 · Treatise
The Tree of Science stands as Ramon Llull's most ambitious attempt to synthesize all human knowledge within a unified Christian framework. Written in 1295 during his mature period, this encyclopedic treatise emerged…
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Marguerite Porete · 1296–1306 · Treatise
The Mirror of Simple Souls is a mystical treatise written in Old French by Marguerite Porete, a beguine from Hainaut, between 1296 and 1306. Porete composed this work as a guide for…
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Angela de Foligno · 1297–1309 · Treatise
Angela of Foligno's Instructions emerged from her years as a spiritual director to a growing circle of disciples in late thirteenth and early fourteenth-century Italy. A Franciscan tertiary who had experienced a…
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Johannes Tauler · 1300–1361 · Sermon
The Inner Way emerges from the sermons Johannes Tauler preached throughout the Rhineland during the fourteenth century, a period when the Dominican mystical tradition was reaching its full flowering. Tauler inherited the…
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Meister Eckhart · 1300–1328 · Sermon
Meister Eckhart's sermons and treatises emerge from his dual role as Dominican preacher and university master in early fourteenth-century Germany. Preaching primarily to communities of religious women—Beguines and Dominican nuns—Eckhart developed a…
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Meister Eckhart · 1300–1327 · Sermon
Meister Eckhart was a Dominican friar who twice held the Paris chair of theology reserved for non-French members of his order, an honor he shared with Thomas Aquinas. But the German sermons…
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Meister Eckhart · 1302–1303 · Treatise
The Quaestiones Parisienses represents Meister Eckhart's formal theological engagement during his second tenure at the University of Paris, where he served as master of theology from 1311 to 1313. These scholastic questions,…
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Meister Eckhart · 1303–1310 · Commentary
Meister Eckhart composed his Latin commentary on the Book of Wisdom sometime between 1303 and 1310, during the years he served as a Dominican administrator and scholar in Germany, teaching and governing…
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Marguerite d'Oingt · 1303–1310 · Other
The Life of Beatrice of Ornacieux is a short saint's life written by Marguerite d'Oingt, a Carthusian nun who served as prioress of the charterhouse of Poleteins in the Lyonnais. Marguerite composed…
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Ramon Llull · 1304 · Treatise
Ramon Llull's "Book of the Ascent and Descent of the Intellect" emerged from his lifelong project to demonstrate the rational foundations of Christian faith and convert Muslims and Jews through philosophical argument.…
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Meister Eckhart · 1305–1313 · Treatise
A short vernacular treatise by the Dominican preacher and master of theology Meister Eckhart, written in Middle High German rather than the Latin of the schools, and transmitted in the manuscript tradition…
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Ramon Llull · 1305 · Treatise
The Ars magna stands as Ramon Llull's most ambitious and systematic work, representing the culmination of his lifelong project to create a universal method for discovering and demonstrating truth. Written in 1305…
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Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1308–1320 · Poem
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy emerged from the political upheaval and personal exile that marked early fourteenth-century Florence. Written between 1308 and 1320 while Dante wandered in banishment from his beloved city, this…
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Ramon Llull · 1308 · Treatise
The Ars brevis is Ramon Llull's condensed presentation of his revolutionary method for discovering and demonstrating truth through systematic reasoning. Written in 1308 as a shortened version of his larger Ars generalis…
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Meister Eckhart · 1311–1313 · Commentary
The Expositio libri Genesis is Meister Eckhart's Latin commentary on Genesis, composed during his second regency in the Dominican chair for foreign masters at Paris — an appointment previously held by Thomas…
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Meister Eckhart · 1311–1314 · Treatise
The Opus tripartitum represents Meister Eckhart's ambitious attempt to construct a comprehensive theological system during his mature period as a master at Paris and provincial of Saxony. Conceived between 1311 and 1314,…
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Meister Eckhart · 1314–1323 · Commentary
Meister Eckhart's commentary on the Gospel of John represents his most sustained biblical exegesis, composed during his mature period as a master of theology at the University of Paris and later while…
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Meister Eckhart · 1314–1320 · Treatise
Von abegeschiedenheit, known in English as "On Detachment," stands as one of Meister Eckhart's most penetrating treatises on the mystical life. Written during his mature period as a Dominican master in the…
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Meister Eckhart · 1314–1318 · Treatise
Meister Eckhart wrote this treatise on divine consolation between 1314 and 1318 for Agnes, Queen of Hungary, following the deaths of her father Albert I and brother Frederick. Written in Middle High…
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Richard Rolle · 1320–1340 · Commentary
Richard Rolle's Super Canticum Canticorum represents one of the most passionate and personal biblical commentaries of the fourteenth century. Written during the height of his mature mystical period, this Latin commentary on…
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Richard Rolle · 1320–1330 · Commentary
Richard Rolle's "Judica Me Deus" is a Latin commentary on Psalm 43 (42 in the Vulgate numbering), written during the height of his mystical period in the 1320s or early 1330s. The…
