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    "name": "Rhineland Mystics",
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    "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "mystical sermons + treatises",
    "tradition": "Christian mysticism (Rhineland)",
    "year_approx": 1300,
    "note": "The three German Dominican mystics whose vernacular sermons and treatises shaped late-medieval Rhineland piety. Suso's *Büchlein der Wahrheit* Prologue + Chs I–IV is a project translation from Middle High German (Bihlmeyer 1907) with Diepenbrock 1854 modern German; see /about/translations/.",
    "steiner_loci": [
      "GA 7: Mystics after the Modern Age — chapters on Eckhart and Tauler",
      "GA 51: The History of the Middle Ages — Tauler context"
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      "name": "Meister Eckhart",
      "author": "Meister Eckhart",
      "year_approx": 1300,
      "translator": "C. de B. Evans, 1924 (from Pfeiffer's 1857 German edition)",
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      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Vernacular sermons, treatises (*Talks of Instruction*, *Book of Divine Comfort*, *Of the Nobleman*), and sayings of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–1328) — the most influential of the Rhineland mystics, censured posthumously by John XXII.",
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      "name": "Johannes Tauler",
      "author": "Johannes Tauler",
      "year_approx": 1340,
      "translator": "Walter Elliott, c. 1910",
      "form": "mystical sermons",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Vernacular sermons and conferences of Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361), Eckhart's most prominent pupil and the figure most often named as the *Frankfurter*'s master in the *Theologia Germanica* tradition. Walter Elliott's translation (Paulist Fathers, c. 1910).",
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      "name": "Heinrich Suso",
      "author": "Heinrich Suso",
      "year_approx": 1330,
      "translator": "Anonymous Victorian translator (Life); project translation (Book of Truth)",
      "form": "mystical autobiography + treatise",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Heinrich Suso's autobiographical *Life of the Servant* and his treatise *Büchlein der Wahrheit* (Book of Truth).",
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