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    "name": "Heinrich Suso",
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    "form": "mystical autobiography + treatise",
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    "author": "Heinrich Suso",
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    "note": "Heinrich Suso's autobiographical *Life of the Servant* and his treatise *Büchlein der Wahrheit* (Book of Truth). Suso (c. 1295–1366) was the most affectively mystical of the three Dominicans, and his *Life* is the first spiritual autobiography in German. The *Book of Truth* (Prologue + Chs I–IV) is a project translation from the Middle High German; see [/about/translations/](/about/translations/).",
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      "slug": "vol-1-00-the-life-of-blessed-henry-suso-by-himself",
      "title": "The Life of Blessed Henry Suso, By Himself",
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      "subtitle": "The Life of Blessed Henry Suso — autobiography",
      "blurb": "Suso's spiritual autobiography — the first sustained spiritual autobiography in German literature. Composed in the third person as the *Servitor of Eternal Wisdom*. Records his austerities, his visions, his persecutions, his maturing as a disciple of Eckhart, and his transition from young ascetic to mature spiritual father."
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      "slug": "vol-2-01-prologue-and-chapters-i-iv",
      "title": "Prologue and Chapters I–IV (philosophical core)",
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      "subtitle": "*Little Book of Eternal Wisdom* — Prologue + chapters I-IV (philosophical core)",
      "blurb": "Opens Suso's most-circulated work — *Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit*. The philosophical-doctrinal core: the dialogue between the Servitor and Eternal Wisdom (Christ-Sophia). The classical Eckhartian themes received in the Suso register: tender, affective, more accommodating to ordinary spirituality."
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      "title": "Chapters V–VII: Christic Conformity, the Wild Man Dialogue, and the Comportment of the Detached",
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      "subtitle": "*Eternal Wisdom* chapters V-VII — the wild-man dialogue; Christic conformity",
      "blurb": "Continuation of *Eternal Wisdom*. The famous *Wild Man dialogue* (the figure of the Wild Man as the soul that has cast off ordinary social-religious convention); the chapter on Christic conformity (the soul made like Christ in His passion); the comportment of the disciple of Eternal Wisdom."
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