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Richard Rolle · 1340 · Scripture
Attributed to the fourteenth-century English hermit and religious writer Richard Rolle, this Psalter stands among the major pre-Wycliffite Middle English prose translations of the Bible. Its scope is confined to the Psalms,…
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Bridget of Sweden · 1340–1373 · Other
The Revelationes Extravagantes represents a collection of mystical visions received by Brigitte of Sweden during her later years, spanning roughly from 1340 until her death in 1373. These "extraordinary revelations" were recorded…
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Richard Rolle · 1340–1349 · Treatise
Richard Rolle's final work emerged from a specific pastoral relationship with Margaret Kirkby, a young woman who had recently embraced the enclosed religious life as an anchoress at Hampole. Written in the…
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Gregory Palamas · 1340 · Treatise
The Hagioritic Tome represents the collective theological voice of Mount Athos during one of the most significant doctrinal controversies in late Byzantine Christianity. Written in 1340 under the primary authorship of Gregory…
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Richard Rolle · 1340–1349 · Treatise
Ego Dormio stands as one of Richard Rolle's most accessible English treatises on the mystical life, written during the 1340s for a nun or recluse seeking guidance in contemplative prayer. The work…
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Johannes Tauler · 1340–1361 · Treatise
The Institutiones represents Johannes Tauler's systematic approach to spiritual instruction, emerging from his decades of preaching and pastoral care in fourteenth-century Strasbourg. As a Dominican friar influenced by Meister Eckhart's mystical theology,…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1340–1360 · Treatise
A brief Middle Dutch treatise by Jan van Ruusbroec (1293–1381), the Brabantine priest who served as a chaplain at St. Gudula in Brussels before withdrawing in 1343 to Groenendaal in the Forest…
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Richard Rolle · 1340–1349 · Treatise
Richard Rolle's Emendatio Vitae, written during the final decade of his life as England's most prominent hermit, represents his most systematic attempt to chart the path of spiritual transformation. Composed between 1340…
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Gregory Palamas · 1341–1347 · Treatise
This collection of seven treatises emerged from Gregory Palamas's theological confrontation with Gregorios Akindynos, a former ally who had broken with Palamas over the nature of divine energy and the legitimacy of…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1343–1350 · Treatise
Jan van Ruusbroec wrote this mystical treatise in Middle Dutch during the middle of the fourteenth century, likely between 1343 and 1350, while serving as prior of the Augustinian community at Groenendaal…
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Richard Rolle · 1343 · Treatise
Written around 1343, the Incendium Amoris stands as Richard Rolle's mature theological reflection on the mystical life, composed during his years as a hermit in Yorkshire. This Latin treatise emerged from Rolle's…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1343–1381 · Treatise
Jan van Ruysbroeck's "Vanden seven sloten" (Of the Seven Locks) stands as one of the Flemish mystic's most structured explorations of the spiritual journey toward union with God. Written during his mature…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1343–1350 · Treatise
The Sparkling Stone stands as one of the most sophisticated explorations of mystical union in medieval Christian literature. Jan van Ruysbroeck composed this treatise in Middle Dutch during his years at the…
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Thomas Bradwardine · 1344–1349 · Treatise
Thomas Bradwardine's massive theological treatise emerged from his deep concern that the dominant scholastic theology of his day had drifted toward Pelagianism by overemphasizing human free will and cooperation in salvation. Writing…
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Bridget of Sweden · 1344–1373 · Other
The Revelationes is a collection of mystical visions received by Bridget of Sweden over nearly three decades, from approximately 1344 until her death in 1373. Born into Swedish nobility, Bridget experienced her…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1346–1350 · Treatise
The Seven Enclosures is a short treatise of spiritual direction written by Jan van Ruusbroec, prior of the Augustinian canons at Groenendaal in the Sonian Forest outside Brussels, for Margriet van Meerbeke,…
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Gregory Palamas · 1349–1351 · Treatise
Gregory Palamas composed this systematic theological treatise in Constantinople between 1349 and 1351, during the final phase of the hesychast controversies that had convulsed the Byzantine Church for two decades. Writing as…
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Anonymous (The Cloud of Unknowing) · 1350–1400 · Treatise
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous fourteenth-century treatise on contemplative prayer, written in Middle English by an unknown English mystic for a young disciple seeking deeper union with God. Emerging from…
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Anonymous (Theologia Germanica) · 1350–1400 · Treatise
The Theologia Germanica emerged from the Rhineland mystical tradition of the fourteenth century, written by an anonymous priest associated with the Friends of God, a loose network of mystics centered around figures…
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Heinrich Suso · 1350–1365 · Treatise
The Briefbüchlein, or "Little Book of Letters," consists of eleven letters that Heinrich Suso wrote to various disciples seeking spiritual counsel during the middle decades of the fourteenth century. These letters emerged…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1350–1365 · Treatise
Jan van Ruysbroeck's "Van den kerstenen ghelove" ("On the Christian Faith") stands as his most systematic theological work, written during his mature period as prior of the Augustinian canonry at Groenendaal. Unlike…
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Gregory Palamas · 1354–1358 · Treatise
Gregory Palamas composed this lengthy treatise during the final years of his life as Archbishop of Thessalonica, responding to renewed attacks on hesychast theology from the Byzantine scholar Nicephorus Gregoras. Writing between…
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Gregory Palamas · 1357–1359 · Treatise
This treatise represents Gregory Palamas's mature defense of Orthodox mystical theology, written during the final phase of the hesychast controversy that had consumed Byzantine Christianity for over two decades. Composed between 1357…
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Jan van Ruusbroec · 1359 · Treatise
The Christian Faith (Van den kerstenen ghelove) is a short treatise by Jan van Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century Brabantine priest who served for decades as a chaplain at St. Gudula in Brussels before…
