The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Classic, Modern, Penguin)

Spearing, A. C.

ISBN 10: 0140447628 / ISBN 13: 9780140447620

Editore: Penguin Classics, 2001

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2001. Revised ed. paperback. Although the exact identity of this text's author remains obscure, he was probably an English country parson of the late 14th century. The main theme of this book is that God cannot be reached by human intellect but only by a love that can pierce the "cloud of unknowing". Translator(s): Spearing, A. C. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, further reading. BIC Classification: HRCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156. . . . . . Codice articolo V9780140447620

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Titolo: The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (...

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: New

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In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even today. The unknown author, thought to be a priest and Carthusian monk, is also believed to have written the other three works in this volume: The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer, which, together with The Cloud of Unknowing, are the four texts at the core of medieval mystical theology.

This Penguin Classics edition includes full explanatory notes, suggestions for further reading, an appendix that reproduces the Middle English text of a section of The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, and an introduction that places the texts within the context of medieval religious writing.

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Informazioni sull?autore:

A. C. Spearing is professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has published widely on medieval literature and edited Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love for Penguin Classics.