TY - BOOK ID - 118327324 TI - The memorial of the abundance of the divine sweetness AU - Gertrude of Helfta AU - Barratt, Alexandra PY - 2022 SN - 9780879071387 0879071389 9780879071394 9780879076276 PB - Athens, Ohio Cistercian Publications DB - UniCat KW - Spirituality KW - Spiritual life KW - Mysticism KW - Dark night of the soul KW - Mystical theology KW - Theology, Mystical KW - Negative theology KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholic authors KW - Gertrude, KW - Geertruid, KW - Gertrud, KW - Gertruda, KW - Gertrudes, KW - Gertrudis, KW - 248 GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA KW - 248 GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA KW - 248 GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA KW - Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA KW - Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--GERTRUDIS DE HELFTA KW - Christian spirituality KW - Christian church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118327324 AB - Gertrud the Great (1256-1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences, some of which she recorded in Latin "with her own hand," in what became Book Two of The Herald of God's Loving-Kindness, the standard version of her revelations. The other four books were written down by a close confidant of the saint, now often known as "Sister N."Recently a different version of Gertrud's revelations has been discovered, in an early fourteenth-century manuscript held at the University of Leipzig, Germany, much older than the known manuscripts of The Herald. The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness is shorter than The Herald, and while the two versions have some text in common (notably most of The Herald's Book Two), the new manuscript also contains some completely new material, which sometimes modifies and sometimes complements what readers already know of the saint. ER -