The Book of the Nine Cliffs is one of the most popular works from the mystic tradition of the Upper Rhine. Though the longer of its two extant versions has been attributed to Rulman Merswin (1382), it is uncertain whether he wrote the original or merely revised an earlier text by another author. This landmark study is based on the Upper German short version, now for the first time in a critical edition.

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Claudia Lingscheid, University of Oslo, Norway.