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Geschichte der abendlandischen Mystik, I: Die Grundlegung durch die Kirchenvater und die Monchstheologie des 12. Jahrhunderts.
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March 22, 1996|
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Kurt Ruh, (Munich: Beck, 1990). 414 pp.; 12 illustrations. ISBN 3-406-34471-2. DM 78.
This is the first part of a projected four-volume history of Western mysticism which, notwithstanding the impression given by the title, will end with the Middle Ages. Decades of pioneering scholarship on mystical literature, above all in the medieval vernaculars, have equipped Kurt Ruh like few others for this task, and although he acts in this volume in the less familiar role of guide to the patristic sources of the mystical tradition and Latin mysticism of the twelfth century, it is ...
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