The pleasure of the text: what two manuscripts can tell us about becoming God

Journal article

This article presents two previously unrecognized Augsburg sources for the transmission of the radical Eckhartian ‘Sister Catherine‘ treatise. A comparison with the earliest known version of the treatise in Munich BSB cgm 133 is used to demonstrate how individual statements in a codex should not be assessed for their interest or radicality independent of context. Rather, the manuscript as a whole should be linked to the spiritual endeavours from which it emerged. One of the two Augsburg codices in particular is situated in the context of the copyist‘s, Agnes Bühlerin’s, attempt to preserve a particular model of spiritual life in the face of external interference by the new Protestant authorities in the diocese of Augsburg post-1539.

Authors: Morgan, B

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Routledge
• Journal: Medieval Mystical Theology
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-64
• Publication date: 2015-04-21
• DOI: 10.1179/2046572614z.00000000018
• EISSN: 2046-5734
• ISSN: 2046-5726
• Language: English
• Keywords: ‘Sister Catherine’ treatise; post-Reformation spirituality; Cistercian convent of Kirchheim am Ries; Agnes Bühlerin; late medieval mysticism; Meister Eckhart in context