Gertrude More

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Gertrude More is written by Gertrude More and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754663094 (ISBN 10) and 9780754663096 (ISBN 13).

Gertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negativa, a path to union with God by way of total self-abnegation and the emptying of the mind of both ideas and images. Her only book-length work, The Spiritval Exercises (Paris, 1658), is a collection of her writing assembled by Dom Augustine Baker, OSB, and published some thirty-three years after her death. Some of More's other verse and prose appears in the biography that Baker composed, but her Spiritval Exercises remains the main text she has bequeathed to her order and to posterity. It is reprinted here in full with Arthur F. Marotti's introductory note outlining Gertrude More's life and work.