Abstract:London, British Library, MS Harley 2409, written in the first half of the fifteenth century, contains a text that has come to be referred to as “long Version C” of The Cleanness of Soul, and which for some time has been considered as based on Catherine of Siena’s Dialogo. The latter, however, is wrong, as Jennifer N. Brown (2015) has recently shown. Part of the text is probably based on William Flete’s Documento spirituale, and it is this part which may most correctly be referred to as Cleanness of Soul. It is… Show more
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