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    "name": "Of the Seven Manners of Holy Love",
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    "form": "mystical prose treatise",
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    "author": "Beatrice of Nazareth",
    "year_approx": 1240,
    "note": "Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200–1268), Cistercian nun and prioress of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Nazareth near Lier in the Duchy of Brabant. The *Seven manieren van minne* is her only surviving treatise in her own vernacular, the earliest substantial work of Middle Dutch mystical prose, composed c. 1235–1245. The treatise traces seven graded *manieren* (manners) of holy Love's working in the soul: the first longing for conformity to the divine image; service of Love without any *why* (anticipating Eckhart's *sunder warumbe* by half a century); the third manner's anguish of inadequacy before Love; the fourth manner's sweet overflowing; the fifth — the *orewoet*, Beatrice's word for the storm of divine love that acts upon the body itself; the sixth manner's house-mistress, the soul as steady ruler of her own house in which Love now reigns; and the seventh manner's eschatological yearning for the *country of eternity*. The Middle Dutch text was identified as Beatrice's work by Jozef Van Mierlo in the mid-1920s, having previously been preserved unidentified as the 42nd sermon of the *Limburgsche Sermoenen*. Project translation from the critical edition of L. Reypens & J. Van Mierlo (Leuven, 1926), which collates three witnesses (Brussels KBR 3067-73; Vienna codex; the *Limburgsche Sermoenen* MS). The three published modern English translations — Eric Colledge 1986 (in Petroff), Oliver Davies 1990 (in Bowie, *Beguine Spirituality*), Roger De Ganck 1991 (Cistercian Studies 122) — are all in copyright; see [/about/translations/](/about/translations/).",
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  "translation": {
    "title": "Of the Seven Manners of Holy Love (complete)",
    "author": "Beatrice of Nazareth, c. 1200-1268",
    "source": "Beatrijs van Nazareth, Seven manieren van minne, ed. L. Reypens & J. Van Mierlo, Leuvensche Studien en Tekstuitgaven 11 (Leuven: De Vlaamsche Boekenhalle, 1926); DBNL diplomatic edition ID beat001lrey01, treatise body pp. 3-39 of Part 2."
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      "slug": "01-seven-manners",
      "title": "Seven Manners",
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