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Mediaeval German Mysticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Kuno Francke
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

The German mysticism of the fourteenth century was one of the most remarkable manifestations of that individualistic trend of thought and feeling which set in during the thirteenth century with the height of chivalric culture, developed under the influence of the growth of civic independence in the great municipal republics, and finally, in the religious Reformation of the sixteenth century, overturned the whole corporate system of the mediaeval church and state.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1912

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References

1 The following nine paragraphs have already appeared in an article, “A Religious Romanticist,” published in the Outlook for December 3, 1910, pp. 785788.Google Scholar Until recently, Suso's writings were accessible only in modern German adaptations. Now, however, we have an authenticated edition of the original text: Heinrich Seuse, Deutsche Schriften, herausgegeben von Karl Bihlmeyer, Stuttgart, 1907.

2 Only within the last few months has there appeared the first authenticated text of Tauler's sermons: Die Predigten Taulers herausgegeben von Ferdinand Vetter, Berlin, 1910Google Scholar.