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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…
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Francis of Assisi · 1320–1390 · Other
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis emerged in the fourteenth century as a collection of stories about Francis of Assisi and his early followers, compiled roughly a century after the saint's death.…
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Thomas Bradwardine · 1325 · Treatise
Thomas Bradwardine's Arithmetica speculativa emerged from the intellectual ferment of early fourteenth-century Oxford, where mathematical studies were experiencing unprecedented development within the university's scholastic curriculum. Written in 1325 during Bradwardine's time as…
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Thomas Bradwardine · 1325–1335 · Treatise
Thomas Bradwardine's Geometria speculativa emerged from the mathematical renaissance at Oxford in the early fourteenth century, where scholars were rediscovering and extending Euclidean geometry through rigorous logical methods. Written during his tenure…
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Heinrich Suso · 1327 · Treatise
The Little Book of Truth emerged from Heinrich Suso's encounter with critics who accused him and other Rhineland mystics of promoting antinomian heresy through their teaching on spiritual detachment. Writing in 1327…
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Thomas Bradwardine · 1328 · Treatise
Thomas Bradwardine's treatise on the proportions of velocities in motion emerged from the sophisticated mathematical and philosophical environment of fourteenth-century Oxford, where scholars at Merton College were pioneering new approaches to understanding…
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Johannes Tauler · 1330–1361 · Sermon
Johannes Tauler's sermons represent one of the finest expressions of fourteenth-century Rhineland mysticism, delivered to Dominican communities and devout laypeople during a period of intense spiritual hunger and ecclesiastical upheaval. Preached primarily…
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Johannes Tauler · 1330–1361 · Sermon
Johannes Tauler's sermons represent one of the most authentic voices of fourteenth-century Rhineland mysticism, emerging from the Dominican communities along the Rhine during a period of intense spiritual ferment. Preaching primarily to…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1330–1340 · Treatise
Jan van Ruusbroec (1293–1381) spent some twenty-six years as a chaplain at the collegiate church of St. Gudula in Brussels before withdrawing in 1343 to the forest of Soignes at Groenendaal, where…
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Richard Rolle · 1330–1340 · Treatise
The Melos Amoris, or Song of Love, represents Richard Rolle's most sophisticated theological treatise on the mystical life, written during his mature years as a hermit in Yorkshire. Composed in Latin around…
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Thomas Bradwardine · 1330 · Treatise
Thomas Bradwardine's Tractatus de continuo, completed around 1330 while he was a fellow at Merton College, Oxford, represents one of the most sophisticated medieval attempts to resolve fundamental questions about the nature…
