The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

A classic and enigmatic exploration of medieval English mysticism

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a text full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit e...