Space and Spacelessness in Henry Suso’s ‚The Exemplar‘

Henry Suso (d. 1366) was one of the most influential mystical writers of the later Middle Ages, urging his followers to detach themselves from the physical world so that they could be spiritually united with God. However, his most famous work, The Exemplar, is filled with vivid descriptions of material spaces and places. This strange paradox is the subject of this project, funded by the FWF and carried out at the University of Vienna. It will understand Suso as developing a mystical and spatial programme with a long history in Christian thought, but which had been most recently and most radically expressed in the work of his influential teacher, Meister Eckhart.

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