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The Medieval Church · c. 1240–1260
The Poems and Letters
Hadewijch of Brabant · 13th century
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What it is
Stanzaic poems in the forms of troubadour song, and letters of spiritual direction to younger women, on the cost of loving God without consolation.
Why it lasted
Among the first great lyric poetry in Dutch, and direction written by a woman for women outside any convent.
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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