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The Medieval Church · c. 1438; published 1475
The Seven Spiritual Weapons
Catherine of Bologna · 1413–1463
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What it is
Seven weapons against temptation, written by an abbess who also describes her own long assault by doubts about whether anything she believed was true.
Why it lasted
A rare fifteenth-century account of religious doubt by a woman, written for her sisters and printed within a dozen years of her 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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