SOURCE: Turner, Denys. “The Cloud of Unknowing and the Critique of Interiority.” In The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, pp. 186-210.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

In the following essay, Turner analyzes some differences between The Cloud of Unknowing and the works that influenced it.

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This writyng that next foloweth is the Inglische of a book that Seynte Denys wrote unto Thimothe, the whiche is clepid [called] in Latyn tonge Mistica Theologia. Of the whiche book, forthi that it is mad minde [referred to] in the 70 chapter of a book wretin before (the whiche is clepid the Cloude of Vnknowing) how that Denis sentence [opinion] wol cleerli afferme al that is wretyn in that same book; therefore, in translacioun of it, I have not onliche folowed the nakyd lettre of the text, bot for to declare the hardnes of it [clarify its difficulties], I have moche...