The Cloud of Unknowing is surely the most remarkable work by a school of the fourteenth century English mystic and one of the classics of religious literature in English. Aimed at a young disciple to guide you through the exercise of contemplation, this work combines the liveliness of the description of a personal spiritual experience with the author's claim convey this experience with a direct and simple language. Without giving up the traditional doctrine of the Church, presents the various psychological and emotional states spanning the contemplative to become one with God and how to overcome them, with particular emphasis on some disputed issues in spiritual circles of his time, as the gift of divine grace, immanence and transcendence, the relationship of body and soul into the task of contemplation. The treaty is an excellent example of affective mysticism of the fourteenth century, the search of the encounter with God in the privacy of the individual conscience, in an era marked by controversy about the various forms of religious life, the crisis of ecclesiastical institutions and the decline of scholastic thought.The author's identity is unknown. While reading the text can be deduced that it was a well-trained cleric and expert theological controversies of the time, it was impossible to determine their condition and the area in which he practiced his teachings. The language of the manuscripts can assign text to one of four Middle English dialect groups and suggests that the author was from the northeast of the Midlands. Likewise, also the date of composition unknown, although most critics agree in placing it between the death of two other contemporary English mystic, Richard Rolle (1349) and William Hilton (1395), because the cloud appears want to correct some notions that appear in the work of the first and, in turn, seems to be the subject of some critical comments that appear in the work of the second. Therefore was probably written in the late fourteenth century, at the same time when Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales (1390).Of interest to religious groups and movements of contemplation for people with religious concerns, teachers and students of classical literature and theology; Seminars and Libraries has.