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The Medieval Church · c. 1362
The Life of the Servant
Henry Suso · c. 1295–1366
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What it is
A spiritual autobiography, partly shaped by a nun who took his confidences down without telling him, describing extreme self-mortification later renounced as misguided.
Why it lasted
The first spiritual autobiography in German, and a rare medieval account of a man repudiating his own asceticism as a mistake.
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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