Henry Pepwell Edmund G. Gardner Brother Hermenegil
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...
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 Ger...
Henry Pepwell was a prominent English printer who was also well known for becoming warden of the Company of Stationers in the early 16th century. This is Pepwell's compilation of some of the early teachings of English mysticism.
Henry Pepwell was a prominent English printer who was also well known for becoming warden of the Company of Stationers in the early 16th century. This...
Henry Pepwell was a prominent English printer who was also well known for becoming warden of the Company of Stationers in the early 16th century. This is Pepwell's compilation of some of the early teachings of English mysticism.
Henry Pepwell was a prominent English printer who was also well known for becoming warden of the Company of Stationers in the early 16th century. This...