Minne, the Middle Dutch and German word for love in the courtly tradition, became in the writings of Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg a name for God and for the soul’s love: demanding, tormenting and blissful. Hadewijch’s poems in stanzas describe the soul as a knight serving Lady Love.
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Love: the courtly word for love used by the Beguine mystics for the soul’s passionate love of God.