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Julian of Norwich
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love . Going against the current trend to place Julian in the category... more...
Mystique et Philosophie
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00Through methods of philology, history, and philosophy, this books establishes that there is no direct connection between Master Eckhart and Jacob Böhme. The concept of the "German mystic philosophy", starting with Eckhart and ending with Böhme, is constructed to have its origin in the Romantic philosophy of the 19th century. more...
Meister Eckhart
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 165.00The thought of Meister Eckhart ? the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the master of language, the mystic ? exudes a remarkable fascination on the modern mind, not the least due to its characteristic interplay of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology. This volume presents the only book-length study in English of Meister Eckhart the philosopher... more...
Meister Eckharts philosophische Mystik
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Meister Eckhart zählt zu den bedeutendsten und wirkmächtigsten Persönlichkeiten des Mittelalters. Bis heute hat sein Werk nichts an Aktualität und Faszination verloren. Als Prediger, Theologe und Philosoph lehrte er die Einheit von Gott und Mensch. Sind seine deutschen Predigten eher von rhetorischer Emphase geprägt, argumentiert... more...
Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 134.99The image of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square is a familar Russian landmark. Yet few people know what made Basil so famous. He was a saint who wandered about naked, bullied passers-by, brawled in the market-place, and once even smashed a revered icon. Saints such as Basil overturn the conventional concept of sainthood - what, we... more...
Julian of Norwich's Legacy
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 95.00This detailed study is the first to outline Julian of Norwich's reception throughout history, from the extant manuscripts to the present day. more...
Meister Eckhart in Melk
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 238.00The present study deals with the reception of the works of Meister Eckhart during the first half of the 15th century at the Benedictine monastary of Melk (Austria). Eckhart's work is to be found there in manuscripts of the laybrother Lienhart Peuger only. A detailed description of these manuscripts (also introducing some hitherto unknown sermons by... more...
Christian Mystics
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 31.95Ursula King?s Christian Mystics tells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual meaning. Moving from key figures of the early Christian age to the great mystics of modern times, special emphasis is given to the great high points... more...
Enduring Grace
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven remarkable women, Flinders brings to life a... more...









