The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1201–1300
5 works
c. 1213–1215
Latin
James of Vitry · c. 1160/70–1240
A married woman who persuaded her husband to live in continence, gave away their goods, and lived a life of extreme penance and eucharistic devotion outside any religious order.
c. 1240–1260
Middle Dutch
Hadewijch of Brabant · 13th century
Fourteen visions of overwhelming intensity, in which Love appears as a demanding lady and the seer is drawn into the abyss of the Trinity and sent back unsatisfied.
c. 1240–1260
Middle Dutch
Hadewijch of Brabant · 13th century
Stanzaic poems in the forms of troubadour song, and letters of spiritual direction to younger women, on the cost of loving God without consolation.
c. 1250–1282
Middle Low German
Das fließende Licht der Gottheit
Mechthild of Magdeburg · c. 1207–c. 1282
Visions, dialogues, and love songs between the soul and God, moving between erotic longing, fierce criticism of corrupt clergy, and a tour of purgatory.
c. 1290–1300
Old French
Le Mirouer des simples ames
Marguerite Porete · d. 1310
A dialogue among Love, Reason, and the Soul describing a soul so annihilated in God that it no longer needs the virtues, having become what it loves.
1301–1400
1 work
1311–1312
Latin
The Council of Vienne
The council that suppressed the Templars, ruled on Franciscan poverty, condemned propositions attributed to the beguines, and ordered chairs of Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic in the universities.
6 of 1774 works