Meister Eckhart, The German Works: 56 Homilies for the Liturgical Year. 2. De sanctis: Introduction, Translation and Notes

This volume (based on Loris Sturlese’s liturgical ordering) contains the

vernacular texts and English translations of 56 of Eckhart’s German

sermons, which can be linked with the cycle of preaching during the

liturgical year on the Saints and other occasions (De sanctis).

It is the second volume, following ETS 9 (De tempore), and gives

us Eckhart’s preaching in literary form. The corpus of sermons that have

been relocated into their liturgical place are taken from the critical

edition of Kohlhammer to which was added a new English translation (for

some of the sermons the first so in English). It opens a door to

students and interested readers into the world of Eckhart’s liturgical

preaching, helped by a thorough general introduction on the topic of

sainthood, short prefaces to all homilies and notes.