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The Medieval Church · c. 1308–1318
The Book of Divine Consolation
Meister Eckhart · c. 1260–1328
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What it is
Written for a queen in grief: consolation not by softening loss but by arguing that whoever is wholly given over to God cannot be robbed of anything that matters.
Why it lasted
Eckhart's most sustained German treatise, and one of the propositions drawn from it was condemned after his death.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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