 In late 1294, Eckhart was made Prior at Erfurt and Provincial of Thuringia.His earliest vernacular work, "Reden der Unterweisung" ("The Talks of Instructions"/"Counsels on Discernment"), a series of talks delivered to Dominican novices, dates from this time (c. 1295–1298).In 1302, he was sent to Paris to take up the external Dominican chair of theology.