{ "meta": { "schema_version": "1.1", "endpoint": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/index.json" }, "work": { "slug": "beguine-mystics", "name": "Beguine Mystics", "stream": "greco-christian", "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin", "epoch_written": "greco-latin", "form": "mystical visions + lyric prose", "tradition": "Christian mysticism (Beguine)", "year_approx": 1260, "note": "The lay women's mystical movement that flourished in the thirteenth-century Low Countries and Saxony — distinct from cloistered Dominican mysticism but parallel in its apophatic-bridal theology, and recognized in scholarship as a significant precedent to the Rhineland school. Project translations on /sources/: Mechthild von Magdeburg's *Das fließende Licht der Gottheit* (all seven books); Beatrice of Nazareth's *Seven Manners of Holy Love* (the earliest surviving Middle Dutch mystical prose); Marguerite Porete's *Mirror of Simple Souls* (complete in 15 sections; the work for which Marguerite was burned at the stake in Paris in 1310); and the **complete Hadewijch project** — *Visioenen* (six sections, Visions 1–14 + the *Lijst der volmaakten*), *Strofische Gedichten* (nine sections, all 45 Songs), *Mengeldichten* (six sections, Hadewijch-authentic Poems I–XVII plus the Hadewijch II school appendix XVIII–XXXII), and *Brieven* (ten sections, all 31 prose-Letters). See [/about/translations/](/about/translations/) for the project-translation methodology.", "steiner_loci": [] }, "parents": [], "works": [ { "slug": "hadewijch-visions", "name": "The Visions of Hadewijch", "author": "Hadewijch of Antwerp/Brabant", "year_approx": 1240, "translator": "project translation from Middle Dutch (Van Mierlo 1924-25 critical edition)", "form": "mystical visions", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Hadewijch's Visions: Sections I–VI complete; project translation of the entire Visioenen is shipped.", "chapter_count": 6, "word_count": 27035, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-visions/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-visions/index.json" }, { "slug": "hadewijch-strofische-gedichten", "name": "The Strofische Gedichten (Stanzaic Poems) of Hadewijch", "author": "Hadewijch of Antwerp/Brabant", "year_approx": 1240, "translator": "project translation from Middle Dutch (Heremans/Vercoullie 1875 diplomatic edition)", "form": "mystical lyric poetry (vernacular songs in courtly Minne-lyric tradition)", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Hadewijch's forty-five Stanzaic Poems (Strofische Gedichten, also called Liederen — Songs) are the lyric peak of Middle Dutch courtly-Minne poetry: the troubadour and Minnesang forms turned to the divine, the Beloved being God / Christ, the fier (proud, noble) lover the soul.", "chapter_count": 9, "word_count": 30149, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-strofische-gedichten/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-strofische-gedichten/index.json" }, { "slug": "hadewijch-mengeldichten", "name": "The Mengeldichten (Mixed Poems) of Hadewijch", "author": "Hadewijch of Antwerp/Brabant", "year_approx": 1240, "translator": "project translation from Middle Dutch (Heremans/Vercoullie 1875 diplomatic edition)", "form": "verse-letters in rhymed couplets (didactic mystical verse)", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "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.", "chapter_count": 6, "word_count": 20964, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-mengeldichten/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-mengeldichten/index.json" }, { "slug": "hadewijch-brieven", "name": "The Brieven (Letters) of Hadewijch", "author": "Hadewijch of Antwerp/Brabant", "year_approx": 1240, "translator": "project translation from Middle Dutch (Vercoullie 1895 diplomatic edition)", "form": "prose-letters of spiritual direction", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Hadewijch's Brieven — her thirty-one prose-Letters, addressed to one or more younger Beguines under her direction.", "chapter_count": 10, "word_count": 39025, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-brieven/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/hadewijch-brieven/index.json" }, { "slug": "porete-mirror-simple-souls", "name": "The Mirror of Simple Souls", "author": "Marguerite Porete", "year_approx": 1295, "translator": "project translation lightly modernizing the 14th-c. Middle English of 'M.N.' (Kirchberger 1927)", "form": "mystical dialogue-treatise", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Marguerite Porete (c. 1250–1310), the Beguine of Hainaut who was burned alive in Paris on June 1, 1310 for refusing to recant or withdraw her book — the only medieval mystical writer condemned to death by name for the contents of a treatise still extant.", "chapter_count": 15, "word_count": 54181, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/porete-mirror-simple-souls/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/porete-mirror-simple-souls/index.json" }, { "slug": "beatrice-seven-manners", "name": "Of the Seven Manners of Holy Love", "author": "Beatrice of Nazareth", "year_approx": 1240, "translator": "project translation from Middle Dutch (Reypens & Van Mierlo 1926)", "form": "mystical prose treatise", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200–1268), Cistercian nun and prioress of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Nazareth near Lier in the Duchy of Brabant.", "chapter_count": 1, "word_count": 5252, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/beatrice-seven-manners/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/beatrice-seven-manners/index.json" }, { "slug": "mechthild-flowing-light", "name": "The Flowing Light of the Godhead — Books I-VII (complete)", "author": "Mechthild von Magdeburg", "year_approx": 1260, "translator": "project translation from Alemannic Middle Low German (Morel 1869)", "form": "mystical visions + lyric prose", "subtitle": null, "blurb": "Mechthild von Magdeburg (c. 1207–1282), the Beguine visionary whose *Das fließende Licht der Gottheit* is the first vernacular mystical work in German.", "chapter_count": 7, "word_count": 102134, "landing_url": "/sources/beguine-mystics/mechthild-flowing-light/", "api_url": "/api/sources/beguine-mystics/mechthild-flowing-light/index.json" } ] }