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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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