Teaching and Preaching Love: the Middle Dutch Limburg Sermons and the Transmission of Mystical Ideas in Thirteenth-Century Brabant KU Leuven
This project proposes new, fundamental research into a group of little studied mystical texts, the so-called Limburg Sermons. This is a group of spiritual treatises written in Middle Dutch, between 1270 and 1300. They were written and compiled anonymously, most likely for a community of lay spiritual men. Despite the name, the texts were most likely written in or around Brabant. 32 of the 48 sermons are translations of an older Middle High ...