The Tegernsee Debate on Love and Knowledge: Letters and Treatises on Mystical Theology from the 1450s

Edited and translated by David Albertson and K. Meredith Ziebart
Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations (Peeters).

David Albertson (University of Southern California) and K. Meredith Ziebart (Loyola University Maryland) are collaborating on a study of the Tegernsee Debate. The volume will be comprised of facing-page Latin-English translations of the letters and treatises that circulated among Bernard of Waging, Vincent of Aggsbach, Johann Schlitpacher, Marquard Sprenger, Conrad Geisenfeld, and Nicholas of Cusa between 1451 and 1464 on the nature of mystical theology.

The texts that comprise the dramatic and illuminating Tegernsee Debate have to date remained unaccessible to all but a few scholars. As things stand, the full picture of the Tegernsee Debate must be pieced together from various sources, and crucial parts of the puzzle are out of reach even for many scholars working in the field. The Tegernsee Debate on Love and Knowledge will not only render the texts into English for the first time, but also organize the fragments into a coherent whole that will be as valuable to advanced scholars as it will be to undergraduate students.