The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg

Name: The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg
Author: Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild of Magdeburg · 1250

A thirteenth-century beguine wrote this in her own Low German over three decades. Light is her recurring figure, and she keeps asking what it does when nothing lights it.

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Then the Blessed Virgin took her by the hand, and led her to a house exceeding fair, which was built of square stones deeply laid, and which had no window, yet which within was full of light.

Mechthild of Magdeburg