Exemplar

Henry Suso (1295/1297-1366) - the pupil, follower, apologist, but in part and the critic of his teacher of Master Eckhart (the works of which have already reached the series "literary monuments"), severe ascetic, fanning ecstatics, preacher and confessor of women"s monasteries, acquired The domestic reader as one of the main characters of the famous book I. Hözingi "Autumn Middle Ages", enters, along with his Cologne Mentor, Eckhart and another John Tauler (the writings of which are still waiting for their academic presentation of the Russian audience), in the top three of the great mystics and the hedgeons of her philosophy. Neo-Platonian theology of Eckhart in the editorial office of Suso close to the theology of the Byzantine Palamites of the XTV century. and amounted to his Western European analogue. That is why the creativity of Konstanzsky Charismatics will undoubtedly be in demand by the domestic religious thought brought up in the works of V. Lossky and the prot. I. Meyendorf, and his quest in the context of the search for modern forms of spiritual life, not involved in church official and alternative, will be perceived as fresh and relevant.
Creation of Suso cannot leave indifferent and otherwise. First of all, it is the autobiography of our hero - "Vita", the first in German literature, which is a genuine encyclopedia of the life of medieval Germany: bloody, frankly isoisseous askey, radical ways "imitation of Christ" (killing flesh, self-defense) and ecstatic contemplations, common customs, festivities , Plague epidemics, worship of the relics and faith in miracles that take the form of a massive excitement, the subject culture of the time n scenes of everyday life of social classes - the picture fulfilled by passions and intellectual boors The picture opens with the Russian reader in its entirety and conflict. Here and the history of monastic life, and the exciting catchisators of the servant - the literary image of the city of Suzo, - falling into the hands of the robbers either into the thick of the crowd, soon on massacre a crowd drowning in the raised waters of the Rhine, slandered by the closest spiritual children and pursued by feudal mortal violence.
The publication includes all the German-speaking writings of the city of Suzo - both included, and not included in the author"s compilation prepared by him - "Exemplar". The first group includes the autobiography "Vita", the "book of eternal wisdom", written in the traditions of the spiritual dialogue, "book of truth" - the amount and apology of the Ekhardsky theology, and the letter of letters - a kind of episristolar compendium. The second group consists of a "big letter of letters" addressed to different persons and subsequently collected by the spiritual daughter of G. Suzo Dominican Republic E. Staugel, four sermons, the authorship of two of which is considered to be finally not established, as well as the meditative treatise of the pseudo-szo "book of love". The only Latin product of Konstantsky Mystic, "High-graders of wisdom", is represented by a number of parallel places (more than 120) to the "book of eternal wisdom" - a brief edition of this character included in the "EXEMPLAR". The translation is accompanied by unfolded notes and two articles dedicated to both the creativity of the G. Suso as a whole and its "part-time wisdom" in particular