List #7B: Mysticism

 

 

Primary Sources:

 

Devotio Moderna:  Basic Writings. Edited by John Van Engen.   Pref. by Heiko Oberman.  Classics of Western Spirituality.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1988.

 

Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, edited by Franz Pfeiffer.  2 vols.  1845-57, rpt. Aalen:  Scientia Verlag, 1962.

 

Deutsche und niederländische Mystik des Mittelalters: Ein Studienbuch, edited by Peter Dinzelbacher. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

 

Late Medieval Mysticism, edited by Ray C. Petry.  The Library of Christian Classics 13.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1957.

 

Literature of Mysticism in Western Tradition, edited by Patrick Grant.  New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

 

The Mediaeval Mystics of England.  Edited by Eric Colledge.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961.

 

Women Mystics in Medieval Europe.  Edited by Emilie Zum Brunn and Georgette Epiney-Burgard.  Translated by Sheila Hughes.  New York:  Paragon House, 1989. 

                       

 

Secondary Sources:                              

 

Barr, Jessica.  Willing to Know God:  Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages.  Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 2010. 

                          

Beer, Frances.  Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992.

 

Butler, Edward Cuthbert.  Western Mysticism:  The Teaching of Augustine, Gregory and Bernard on Contemplation and Contemplative Life.  3rd ed.  London:  Constable, 1967.       

 

Coakley, John W.  Women, Men, and Spiritual Power:  Female Saints and their Male Collaborators.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

 

Dickens, Andrea Janelle.  The Female Mystic: Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages.  New York:  I. B. Tauris, 2009.

 

Dinzelbacher, Peter. Mittelalterliche Frauenmystik. Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 1993.

 

Dinzelbacher, Peter and Dieter R. Bauer, eds. Frauenmystik im Mittelalter.Ostfildern bei Stuttgart: Schwabenverlag, 1985.

 

Dinzelbacher, Peter and Dieter R. Bauer, eds. Religiöse Frauenbeweggung und mystische Frömmigkeit im Mittelalter.  Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 28. Cologne: Böhlau, 1988.

 

Dodds, Eric Robinson.  Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

 

Fanning, Steven.  Mystics of the Christian Tradition. New York:  Routledge, 2001. 

 

Glasscoe, Marion, ed.  The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England:  Papers Read at Dartington Hall, July 1984. Cambridge:  D. S. Brewer, 1984.

 

Harmless, William. Mystics. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Hollywood, Amy.  The Soul as Virgin Wife:  Mechtild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart.  Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.

 

Holm, Nils G., ed. Religious Ecstasy:  Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Religious Ecstasy held at Abo, Finland, on the 26th-28th of August 1981.  Stockholm:  Almquist & Wiksell International, 1982.

 

Kieckhefer, Richard.  Unquiet Souls:  Fourteenth Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984.

 

Knowles, David.  What Is Mysticism? London:  Burns & Oates, 1967.

 

Lagorio, Valerie M, and Rita Bradley.  The Fourteenth Century English Mystics:  A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography.  Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 190.  New York:  Garland, 1981.

 

Leclercq, Jean.  “La vie contemplative dans S. Thomas et dans la tradition.” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 28 (1961): 251-68.

 

Lewis, Gertrud Jaron.  Bibliographie zur deutschen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters. Bibliographien zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 10.  Berlin:  Erich Schmidt, 1989.

 

Louth, Andrew.  The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition from Plato to Denys.  Oxford:  Clarendon, 1981.

                           

Mazzoni, Cristina.  Saint Hysteria:  Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1996.

 

McGinn, Bernard, John Meyendorff, and Jean Leclercq, eds. Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century. World Spirituality:  An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest 16. New York:  Crossroad, 1988. 

 

McGinn, Bernard. “Evil Sounding, Rash, and Suspect of Heresy”: Tensions between Mysticism and Magisterium in the History of the Church.”  Catholic Historical Review 80 (2004): 193-212.

 

McGinn, Bernard.  The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany.  Vol. IV of The Presence of God:  A History of Western Mysticism.  6 vols.  New York:  Crossroad Publishing, 2005.

  

McGinn, Bernard, ed. Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics. New York: Continuum, 1994.

 

McGinn, Bernard, John Meyendorff, and Jean Leclercq.  Christian Spirituality:  Origins to the Twelfth Century.  World Spirituality 16. New York:  Crossroad Publishing, 1988.

 

Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda.  Body and Soul:  Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.

               

Rousseau, Philippe.  “Cassian, Contemplation, and the Cenobitic Life.”  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 26 (1975):  113-26.

 

Ruh, Kurt, ed. Altdeutsche und altniederländische Mystik. Wege der Forschung 23.  Darmstadt:  Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1964.

 

Santi, Francesco. "Santità mistica."  In Forme e modelli della santità in Occidente dal tardo antico al medioevo, edited by Massimiliano Bassetti, Antonella Degl'Innocenti, and Enrico Menestò. Spoleto: CISAM, 2012.  Pp. 111-36.

 

Szarmach, Paul, ed. An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe. Albany:  SUNY Press, 1984.

 

Tobin, Frank.  Mechtild von Magedeburg:  A Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes.  Columbia SC:  Camden House, 1995.

 

Underhill, Evelyn.  Mysticism:  A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness.  1911, rpt. London:  Methuen & Co Ltd, 1977.                                  

 

Vauchez, André.  “Les pouvoirs informels dans l’Église aux derniers siècles du moyen âge:  visionnaires, prophètes et mystiques.”  Mélanges de l’École française de Rome: Moyen âge, temps modernes 96 (1984):  281-291. 

 

Vauchez, André.  La spiritualité du moyen âge occidental, VIIIe-XIIe siècles.  L’historien 19.  Paris:  Presses unversitaires de France, 1975. 

 

Voaden, R.  God’s Words, Women’s Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writings of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries. York: York University Medieval Press, 1999.

 

Walsh, James, ed..  Pre-Reformation English Spirituality. New York:  Fordham University Press, 1964.

 

Walsh, James.  Spirituality through the Centuries:  Ascetics and Mystics of the Western Church.  New York:  P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1963.

 

Weithaus, Ulrike, ed.  Maps of Flesh and Light:  The Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1992.

 

Woods, R.  Mysticism and Prophecy.  The Dominican Tradition.  Traditions of Christian Spirituality.  London:  Darton Longman & Todd, 1998.