The Cloud of Unknowing

Edited by Patrick J. Gallacher

Book cover: The Cloud of Unknowing

Extent: 143 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 1997)

ISBN: 9781879288898

7.05 x 10 inches

Price: $14.95

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PDF (Published)

(May 1997)

ISBN: 9781580444712

Price: $12.00

Describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Accessible to students and teachers by including a gloss, introduction, notes, and glossary. This text gives a great introduction to the ethos of mysticism in the middle ages.


The Cloud of Unknowing describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Meanwhile, despite the austerity of the content, the style of the author is warm and congenial and eminently readable. Patrick J. Gallacher further makes this text accessible to students and teachers by including a gloss, introduction, notes, and glossary. This text gives a great introduction to the ethos of mysticism in the middle ages.

Acknowledgments Introduction Select Bibliography The Cloud of Unknowing Notes Glossary, Acknowledgments
Introduction
Select Bibliography
The Cloud of Unknowing
Notes
Glossary

Patrick Joseph Gallacher was Professor Emeritus of Medieval Language and Literature in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico. He was author or editor of several books, as well as numerous reviews and path breaking articles. He was, for example, one of the first Chaucerian scholars to combine medieval medicine and literature in such articles as “Chaucer and the Rhetoric of the Body,” “The Summoner’s Tale and Medieval Attitudes Toward Sickness,” and “Food, Laxatives, and Catharsis in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”

  • Edited by Patrick J. Gallacher