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The Medieval Church · c. 1382–1408
The Chastising of God's Children
Anonymous
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What it is
Counsel for religious women on temptations, the withdrawal of consolation, and how to tell genuine revelations from delusion or illness.
Why it lasted
An unusually level-headed English treatment of discernment, sceptical of visionary experience at the height of the fashion for it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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