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The Medieval Church · c. 1352
The Book of the Nine Rocks
Rulman Merswin · 1307–1382
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What it is
A vision of nine rocks rising from a pool toward a mountain, with an unsparing survey of the corruption of every rank of the church on the way up.
Why it lasted
A leading document of the Friends of God, a lay movement of the Rhineland that read mysticism as a rebuke to the institutional church.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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