The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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Overview

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780140447620
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/29/2002
Series: Classic, Modern, Penguin
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 113,716
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

The Cloud of Unknowing
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Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Text

The Mystical Theology of St. Denis
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Book of Privy Counselling
An Epistle on Prayer
Notes
Appendix: Middle English text of The Mystical Theology of St. Denis, chapter 2

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