CONTENT: Preface: Pioneering middle Dutch spiritual literature -- Publications by Thom Mertens -- Thom Mertens: a tribute by John van Engen -- I. Spiritual literature in the late medieval Low Countries - An Overview. ch.1. Books for eternity ; ch.2. Mystical culture and literature in the late middle ages ; ch.3. The monastery as a literary institution in the Low Countries (13th–16th Century) -- II. Middle Dutch Sermons. ch.4. The middle Dutch sermon. A premature synthesis ; ëh.5. Collatio and codex in the context of the Devotio Moderna ; ch.6. Ghostwriting sisters. The preservation of Dutch sermons of Father confessors in the fifteenth and the early sixteenth century ; ch.7. The Sermons of Johannes Brugman OFM († 1473). Preservation and form ; ch.8. Private revelation and public relevance in the middle Dutch Sermon Cycle Jhesus collacien -- III. Aspects of genre in middle Dutch spiritual literature. ch.9. Reading with a pen. Developments in late medieval spiritual prose ; ch.10. Consolation in late medieval Dutch literature ; ch.11. Spiritual testaments in the late medieval Low Countries. An exploration of the genre ; ch.12. Die gheestelicke melody. A program for the spiritual life in a middle Dutch song cycle ; ch.13. Voices without words. Hendrik Mande’s spiritual ‘Love Complaint’ as a mystical dialogue ; ch.14. Hendrik Mande’s apocalypse