Hendrik Mande

Hendrik Mande (1350-60 – 1431) was a Dutch mystical writer, an early member of the Brethren of the Common Life, and an Augustinian Canon.

While serving as a copyist in the court of Count Willem, he heard the preaching of Geert Groote on the Devotio Moderna, a movement seeking a return to an apostolic faith based on piety, humility, obedience, and simplicity of life.

Mande became a convert and joined the Brethren of the Common Life, a group devoted to the principles of Devotio Moderna.

Mande wrote fourteen mystical treatises, such as Book of Revelations (now lost), A Love Complaint (about the absence and inaccessibility of God ) and Apocalypse.

His works drew heavily on those of Hugh of Saint Victor, Hadewijch and especially John of Ruusbroec.