Meister Eckhart and His Disciples

While the spiritual power of Meister Eckhart's work is well known, its historical context is less so.

Alain de Libera, a renowned medievalist and emeritus professor at the Collège de France, traces the context in which the great Rhenish mystic delivered and wrote his sermons and treatises.

Thus, the importance and subversion of his work are grasped in a first historical section.

The exploration of Meister Eckhart's greatest texts unfolds in a second part, an anthology built around the main themes of his mysticism: humility, detachment, abandonment and poverty, the soul, grace and deification.