Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

and of other theologians, only those who had a particular influence on the circumstances of the church at that time, or who resisted the established corruption through a noble frankness. The later mystics, even including Tauler refers to Johannes Tauler, a German mystic, have been omitted with deliberation. Regarding the historians, I would have gladly gone further and willingly complied with the wish of some patrons, but the limits set for the work did not allow it. Partly for this same reason