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    "slug": "hadewijch-mengeldichten",
    "name": "The Mengeldichten (Mixed Poems) of Hadewijch",
    "stream": "greco-christian",
    "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin",
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    "form": "verse-letters in rhymed couplets (didactic mystical verse)",
    "tradition": "Christian mysticism (Beguine)",
    "author": "Hadewijch of Antwerp/Brabant",
    "year_approx": 1240,
    "note": "Hadewijch's Mengeldichten ('Mixed Poems') are her didactic verse corpus — sixteen poems by Hadewijch herself, with a further group (Poems XVII-XXIX) traditionally attributed to a slightly later writer called 'Hadewijch II' in the Hadewijch-school tradition. Unlike the lyrical Strofische Gedichten (stanzaic with refrains, in the troubadour tradition), the Mengeldichten are in rhymed couplets, more didactic in tone, and often function as verse-letters addressed to an unnamed correspondent — typically a younger Beguine in formation. **Sections I-IV currently shipped cover Poems I-XVII — Poem XVII being the famous Seven Names of Love canonical Hadewijch-authentic; together approximately 15K English words.** **Sections V-VI ship the COMPLETE 'Hadewijch II'-school appendix (Poems XVIII-XXXII).** The combined Mengeldichten work — Hadewijch-authentic plus the Hadewijch II school appendix — is now SHIPPED IN FULL at approximately 22K English words across six sections. Section I covers Poems I-V: Poem I, the long 300-line opening verse-letter on Love's nature (with the famous modesty-topos *Love's nature is unknown to me; her being and her ground are hidden against me*) and Hadewijch's canonical four-virtues of Love (attainment, lacking, hope, despair); Poem II, the medieval *quaestio*-poem of the *Four Masters and the Strongest Thing* (wine, a king, a woman, truth — read spiritually as sorrow-of-lowness, poverty-of-spirit, humility, and truth-itself-as-Love); Poem III, the Magdalene-as-model-of-steady-Love verse-letter with the rare direct Patristic citation to Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs; Poem IV, the verse-letter of formation to a young reader (*Hold your three-foldness in good order, and love God sweetly*); Poem V, the short companion-verse on the discipline of suffering (*Love herself is best adorned with suffering, from which many gladly flee*). Source: Heremans/Vercoullie 1875 diplomatic edition (DBNL hade002werk01 Vol 1: Gedichten, PD by US 95-year rule). Section I crosses the 5K-word judge threshold (5,601 EN words) following the same deferred-judge pattern as Mechthild V-VI-VII and Hadewijch Visioenen Section VI. Section II adds Poems VI-X: Poem VI's *right Love and weak deceit cannot well agree*; Poem VII's *upon Love shall you let yourself, to rightly love and rightly hate*; Poem VIII's *when the iron is hot, then one shall strike*; Poem IX's Wisdom 3:15 citation *glorious fruit shall he know who much suffers for the heightening of Love*; and Poem X's Christological program closing with *I have no Love at all; I will nothing else, whether she be good or fell to me*. Section III closes the inner Hadewijch-authentic Mengeldichten with Poems XI-XVI: the canonical *edele ontrouwe* doctrinal poem XI; Poem XII's inverted-counsel quatrain; Poem XIII's Psalm 45 echo (*Audi filia / the King desires your beauty*); Poem XIV's twenty-three-paired-antitheses Song; Poem XV's Nine-Months Conception of Love; and Poem XVI's famous closing sound-play poem ending in the *Ay lief hebbic lief een lief...* / *Ay minne om minne ghevet dat minne / De minne al minne volkinne* coda. **Section IV is the famous canonical Hadewijch-authentic Poem XVII — *De minne hevet vij namen* — The Seven Names of Love** (*bant / licht / cole / vier* — bond, light, coal, fire — the four *fier* names; and *dau / levende borne / hille* — dew, living spring, hell — the three *great and severe* names), closing with the striking doctrinal compression *hell is her highest name* — the doctrinal ancestor of Marguerite Porete's *willed-annihilation in God* and Eckhart's *abegescheidenheit*. Section V opens the transparently-marked *Hadewijch II*-school appendix with Poems XVIII-XX: the famous *In dat blote* apophatic poem (*In the bare stand the great who attain*) in proto-Eckhartian register; the Ezekiel-four-living-creatures poem XIX (*a noble I-know-not-how — neither this nor that — that leads us into our beginning*); and Poem XX's *without why love you for yourself* prayer-poem (the Bernardian *amare Deum propter Deum* in apophatic Beguine register, anticipating Eckhart's *sine cur* and Porete's *sonder enich waeromme*). **Section VI completes the Mengeldichten with Hadewijch II XXI-XXXII**: the Trinity-form poem XXI; XXII's *Many-kinds-of-Love are pure Love's hindrance*; XXIII's Trinity-generation poem; the apophatic prayer-poems XXIV-XXVI; XXVII's famous Love-wine-tavern image; XXVIII's *I desire what is unknown to me; for in un-knowing without ground I find myself caught*; XXIX's *poor-of-spirit in the wide single-foldness*; and most importantly **the proto-Eckhart-Seelenfunklein passage of XXX** (*the pure spark, the little ember, the livingness of my soul, that must always be one with God*) — the canonical Hadewijch-school articulation of the *Vünkelîn der Seele* doctrine in late-13th-c. Middle Dutch, predating Eckhart by some thirty years. XXXI's *Ah Love, your tricks are too swift*. XXXII's closing *Welcome inner origin*.",
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      "num": 1,
      "slug": "vol-1-01-poems-1-5",
      "title": "Section I",
      "words": 6014,
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      "subtitle": "Poems I-V — verse-letters in rhymed couplets",
      "blurb": "The opening five Mixed Poems. Unlike the Stanzaic Songs, the *Mengeldichten* are in rhymed couplets and more didactic in tone — verse-letters typically addressed to an unnamed younger Beguine being formed in the way of Love. Establishes the work's pastoral-instructional register."
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      "slug": "vol-2-01-poems-6-10",
      "title": "Section II",
      "words": 2007,
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      "subtitle": "Poems VI-X — *strike while the iron is hot*",
      "blurb": "Five doctrinal verse-letters. **VI**: 'right Love and weak deceit cannot well agree.' **VII**: 'upon Love shall you let yourself.' **VIII**: the famous *strike-while-the-iron-is-hot* stanza — 'when the iron is hot, then one shall strike. So shall you make haste while you have your youth.' **IX**: 'one must with Love undertake all Love.' **X**: the close of the first verse-letter sequence."
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      "num": 3,
      "slug": "vol-3-01-poems-11-16",
      "title": "Section III",
      "words": 5585,
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      "subtitle": "Poems XI-XVI — closing the Hadewijch-authentic Mengeldichten",
      "blurb": "The closing six poems of the certifiably-Hadewijch Mengeldichten. The arc moves toward the apophatic register that culminates in Poem XVII (Section IV). The traditional manuscript ordering preserves Poems I-XVI as a continuous sequence before the masterwork that closes the authentic corpus."
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      "num": 4,
      "slug": "vol-4-01-poem-17-seven-names",
      "title": "Section IV",
      "words": 2030,
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      "subtitle": "Poem XVII — *De minne hevet vij namen* (Love Has Seven Names)",
      "blurb": "Among the most-cited Hadewijch poems and the canonical doctrinal climax of the *Mengeldichten*. The seven names of Love are unfolded — four *fier* (bold) names and three *great and severe / always short and eternally long* names. The manuscripts close the Hadewijch-authentic corpus with this poem; subsequent poems (XVIII-XXIX) are by a later Hadewijch II."
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      "slug": "vol-5-01-poems-18-20-hadewijch-ii",
      "title": "Section V — Attribution Note",
      "words": 1885,
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      "subtitle": "Poems XVIII-XX — the Hadewijch II appendix begins",
      "blurb": "**These poems are not by Hadewijch herself.** The manuscripts mark this division explicitly with the *explicit* formula *Dilata, ira decrescit. Explicit liber iste. Deo gratias. Amen.* The poems that follow are in a markedly different *bloet sonder figure* (bare without figure) apophatic register, identified by Van Mierlo onward as the work of a later writer in Hadewijch's school — an early-Eckhartian precursor."
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      "num": 6,
      "slug": "vol-6-01-poems-21-32-hadewijch-ii",
      "title": "Section VI — COMPLETES THE MENGELDICHTEN",
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      "subtitle": "Poems XXI-XXXII — completes the Mengeldichten corpus",
      "blurb": "Completes the project translation of the entire *Mengeldichten* corpus as found in the 1875 Heremans/Vercoullie edition. Twelve further Hadewijch-II school poems in the apophatic *bare without figure* tradition, anticipating Eckhart's *abegescheidenheit* by some thirty years and likely influencing Ruusbroec."
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