1. MEISTER ECKHART & THE RHINELAND MYSTICS: STUDIES

 

Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Theology of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing, Edward Cadbury Lectures 2000-2001 (New York: Herder / Crossroad, 2001) paperback, $25.  A magisterial survey of the life and mystical teaching of Meister Eckhart by the leading historian of Christian mysticism.  McGinn has been working on Eckhart for decades.  This is the fruit of those long years of study.  Full of nuances and essential insights.  Required reading for any student of Eckhart.

 

Bernard McGinn, The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany, Vol. 4 of The Presence of God: A History of Christian Mysticism (New York: Herder / Crossroad, 2005) paperback, $35.  The latest volume in McGinn's magisterial survey of the history of mysticism.  This focuses on the Dominicans (Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Heinrich Suso).  There is no comparable study of such depth and breadth in English.  Essential.

 

John Caputo, “Fundamental Themes in Meister Eckhart’s Mysticism,” The Thomist 42 (1978) 197-225.  One of the best brief introductions to Eckhart’s worldview and central concerns.

Oliver Davies, Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian (London: SPCK, 1991).

Oliver Davies, God Within: The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe (reprint: Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2006) paperback, $25.

Oliver Davies, “Why were Meister Eckhart’s propositions condemned?” New Blackfriars 71 (1990) 433-445.

Robert J. Dobie, “Meister Eckhart’s Metaphysics of Detachment,” Modern Schoolman 80 (2002): 35-54.

Robert J. Dobie, “Reason and Revelation in the Thought of Meister Eckhart,” The Thomist 67 (2003): 409-438.

Karl Kertz, “Meister Eckhart’s Teaching on the Birth of the Divine Word in the Soul,” Traditio 15 (1959) 327-363.

Richard Kieckhefer, “Meister Eckhart’s Conception of Union with God,” Harvard Theological Review 71 (1978) 203-225.

Bernard McGinn, “The God Beyond God: Theology and Mysticism in the Thought of Meister Eckhart,” Journal of Religion 61 (1981) 1-19.

Bernard McGinn, “Eckhart’s Trial Reconsidered,” The Thomist 44 (1980) 390-414.

Bernard McGinn, ed., Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechtild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete (New York: Continuum, 1994).

Bruce Milem, The Unspoken Word: Negative Theology in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2002) hardcover, $45. 

Lyndon P. Reynolds, “Bullitio and the God Beyond God: Meister Eckhart’s Trinitarian Theology,” New Blackfriars 70 (1989): 169-181 and 235-244.

Kurt Ruh, Meister Eckhart: Theologe, Prediger, Mystiker (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1985). One of the best surveys.

Georg Steer & Loris Sturlese, eds., Lectura Eckhardi: Predigten Meister Eckharts von Fachgelehrten gelesen und gedeutet, 2 vol. to date (Stuttgart / Berlin: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1998, 2003). 

Frank Tobin, Meister Eckhart: Thought and Language (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1986) hardcover.

Paul Vergeyen, Ruusbroec and his Mysticism, Way of the Christian Mystics (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994) paperback.

Richard Woods, Eckhart’s Way, Way of the Christian Mystics (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1990) paperback, $13.  Solid introduction.

 

 2. MEISTER ECKHART & THE RHINELAND MYSTICS: TEXTS

 

For a critical edition of the Middle High German works of Meister Eckhart, see Josef Quint and Georg Steer, eds., Meister Eckhart: Die deutschen und lateinischen Werke heraugegeben im Auftrag der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Die deutschen Werke, 5 vol. (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958-  ); for Eckhart's Latin works, see Josef Koch et al., ed., Meister Eckhart: Die deutschen und lateinischen Werke. Die lateinischen Werke, 5 vol. (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1956-   ).  Here are the major translations of Eckhart and his disciples:

 

Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense, Classics of Western Spirituality,  ed. Edmund Colledge & Bernard McGinn (New York: Paulist Press, 1981) paperback, $23.  Eckhart was one of the most radical of the medieval mystics: he writes using brilliant paradoxes, striking imagery, provocative claims—yet was schooled in all the subtleties of medieval scholasticism.  His orthodoxy was challenged, and some of his positions were posthumously—and unjustly—condemned.

 

Henry Suso, The Exemplar, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Frank Tobin (New York: Paulist Press, 1989) paperback, $17.  Suso (1300-1366) was a Dominican mystic and the great successor to Meister Eckhart.  His Exemplar includes his autobiography as well as his mystical works, especially the Little Book of Eternal Wisdom and the Little Book of Truth.

 

Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher, Classics of Western Spirituality, ed. Bernard McGinn & Frank Tobin (New York: Paulist Press, 1986) paperback, $25.

Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, ed. Oliver Davies (New York: Penguin Book, 1994) paperback, $13.

Meister Eckhart, Sermons and Treatises, ed. Maurice O’Connell Walshe, 3 vol. (Rockport, MA: Element, 1992).  Out of print, unfortunately. The only complete translation of Eckhart's works.  Often excellent.

John Ruusbroec, The Spiritual Espousals and Other Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. James A. Wiseman (New York: Paulist Press, 1985) paperback, $22.

Johannes Tauler, Sermons, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Maria Shrady (New York: Paulist Press, 1985) paperback, $20.

 

 3. JULIAN OF NORWICH: TEXTS & STUDIES

 

Julian of Norwich, Showings, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Edmund Colledge & James Walsh (New York: Paulist Press, 1978) paperback, $22.  Currently popular among feminists because of her bold speaking of Jesus as “our mother”; they miss the obvious: Julian was an austere, thoroughly medieval ascetic—much devoted to the passion of Christ.  Yet her warmth and optimism make this a classic.

 

Denise Nowakowski Baker, Julian of Norwich’s Showings: From Vision to Book (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Frederick Bauerschmidt, Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999) hardcover, $35.

Ritamary Bradley, Julian’s Way: a Practical Commentary on Julian of Norwich (London: HarperCollins, 1992).

Kerrie Hide, Gifted Origins to Graced Fulfillment: The Soteriology of Julian of Norwich (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001) paperback, $25.

Grace Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) paperback, $15.

M. Diane F. Krantz, The Life and Text of Julian of Norwich: The Poetics of Enclosure, Studies in the Humanites, vol. 32 (New York: Peter Lang, 1997).

Sandra J. McEntire, Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998) hardcover.

Joan N. Nuth, Wisdom’s Daughter: The Theology of Julian of Norwich (New York: Crossroad, 1991) hardcover.

Joan N. Nuth, God’s Lovers in an Age of Anxiety: The Medieval English Mystics, Traditions of Christian Spirituality (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001) paperback, $15.

Brant Pelphrey, Christ Our Mother: Julian of Norwich, Way of the Christian Mystics 7 (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1989) paperback.

 

 4. OTHER MEDIEVAL MYSTICS: STUDIES

 

Note: A number of key figures listed in earlier bibliographies are also generally classified as “mystics”: e.g. John Cassian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure.  See Medieval Bibliographies #2, #4, and #5.

 

William Harmless, Mystics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) paperback, $19.  NEW.  Mystics are those who claim to have experienced God.  This book introduces readers to the scholarly study of mysticism, exploring both mystics’ extraordinary lives and their no-less-extraordinary writings.  The heart of the book is a set of case-studies of Christian mystics, including four medievals: Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, as well as Evagrius Ponticus and Thomas Merton. This case-study approach brings things down to earth, restoring mystics to their historical context, and helps bring them alive and let them speak with unexpected immediacy.  The closing chapter offers a unique, multi-sided optic for exploring mystics, their religious communities and their writings.  Geared to a broad audience

 

Bernard McGinn, The Growth of Mysticism: 500 to 1200 A.D.; The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism, 1200-1350; and The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany (New York: Crossroad, 1996, 1998, 2005) paperback, $29-39 per volume.  McGinn is the leading contemporary historian of Christian spirituality.  These are the second, third, and fourth volumes of his multi-volume history of mysticism, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism.  The second includes in-depth studies of Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux; the third focuses on Francis of Assisi and Bonaventure, while the fourth focuses on Eckhart and the Dominicans.

 

Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (New York: Zone Books / MIT Press, 1991) paperback.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) paperback, $16.

Peter J. Casarella,Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (Washington: Catholic Univeristy of America Press, 2006) hardcover, $75.  NEW.

John Coakley, Women, Men and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators, Gender, Theory, and Religion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006) hardcover, $45.  NEW.

Lynda L. Coon, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1997), hardcover, $40.

Oliver Davies, “Late Medieval Mystics,” pp. 221-232, in G.R. Evans, ed., The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) paperback, $40.

Amy M. Hollywood, The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechtild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1 (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995) paperback, $22.

Nancy J. Hudson, Becoming God: The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas of Cusa (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) hardcover, $60.  NEW.

Saskia Murk Jansen, Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguines, Traditions of Christian Spirituality Series (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998) paperback, $13.

Jean Leclerq & Louis Bouyer, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, vol. 2 of History of Christian Spirituality (New York: Seabury, 1968) paperback, $18.  Dated, but still valuable.

Christine Peters, Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) hardcover, $65.

Elizabeth Petroff, Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) paperback, $18.

Sara S. Poor, Mechthild of Madgeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) hardcover.

Jill Raitt, ed., Christian Spirituality II: High Middle Ages and Reformation (New York: Crossroad, 1987) paperback, $35.  A fine survey.

Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg, Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) hardcover, $40.

Michael Anthony Sells, Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).  Has fine chapters on Marguerite Porete and Eckhart.

Paul Szarmach, ed., An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe (New York: SUNY, 1984) paperback.

Frank Tobin, Mechtild von Magdeburg: a Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995).

Denys Turner, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995) paperback, $25.

 

 5. OTHER MEDIEVAL MYSTICS: TEXTS

 

The Cloud of Unknowing, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. James Walsh (New York: Paulist Press, 1981) paperback, $23.  The greatest of the 14th Century English mystics.  His theme: that God cannot be known by the mind, but only a love that pierces through the ‘cloud of unknowing.’  See other works by the Cloud writer published under the title: The Pursuit of Wisdom & Other Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. George Maloney & James Walsh (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) paperback, $23.

 

Bernard McGinn, ed., The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism (New York: Modern Library, 2006) paperback, $20.  A superb collection of mystical writings arranged topically.  McGinn offer selections that examine issues too often ignored, such as the role of biblical interpretation in mystical literature or the role of sacraments in mysticism.  While this includes authors from all eras, there is a large selection of medievals including Bernard of Claivaux, Aelred of Rievault, William of St.-Thierry, Guigo I, Richard of St. Victor, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Genoa, Hadewjich of Antwerp, Richard Rolle, Meister Eckhart, and Nicholas of Cusa.

 

Angela of Foligno, Complete Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Paul Lachance (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) paperback, $25.

Birgitta of Sweden, Life and Selected Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Albert Ryle Kezel & Marguerite T. Harris (New York: Paulist Press, 1990) paperback, $19.

Catherine of Genoa, Purgation and Purgatory, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Serge Hughes (New York: Paulist Press, 1979) paperback, $20.

Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Suzanne Noffke (New York: Paulist Press, 1980 ) paperback, $25.

Elisabeth of Schonau, The Complete Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Ann L. Clark & Barbara Newman (New York: Paulist Press, 2001) paperback, $25.

Gertrude of Helfta, The Herald of Divine Love, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Margaret Winkworth (New York: Paulist Press, 1993 ) paperback, $18.

Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Columba Hart and Jane Bishop (New York: Paulist Press, 1990) paperback, $28.

Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. John P.H. Clark and Rosemary Dorward  (New York: Paulist Press, 1991) paperback, $18.

Jean Gerson, Early Works, trans. Brian Patrick McGuire, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) paperback, $25.

Margaret Ebner, Major Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Leonard Hinsley (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) paperback, $18.

Margery Kemp, The Book of Margery Kemp, trans. John Skinner (New York: Image / Doubleday, 1998) paperback, $12.

Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Frank Tobin (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) paperback, $25.

Marguerite Porète, The Mirror of Simple Souls, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Ellen Babinsky (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) paperback, $23.

Nicholas of Cusa, Selected Spiritual Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. H. Lawrence Bond (New York: Paulist Press, 1997) paperback, $25.

Richard of St. Victor, The Book of the Patriarchs, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Grover Zinn (New York: Paulist Press, 1979) paperback, $23.

Richard Rolle, The English Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Rosamund Allen (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) paperback, $23.

Thomas á Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, ed. Harold C. Gardiner (New York: Image / Doubleday, 1955) paperback, $9.  Perhaps the most widely read book of Christian spirituality.

Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. Anne Savage & Nicholas Watson (New York: Paulist Press, 1991) paperback, $23.

Anglo-Saxon Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality, ed. Robert Boenig (New York: Paulist Press, 2000) paperback, $25.

Beguine Spirituality: Mystical Writings of Mechtild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant, ed. Fiona Bowie, trans. Oliver Davies (New York: Crossroad, 1990).

Celtic Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality, ed. Oliver Davies (New York: Paulist Press, 2000) paperback, $30.

Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, trans. John Van Engen (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) paperback, $20.

Theodore J. Antry and Carol Neel, eds., Norbert and Early Norbertine Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Pualist Press, 2007) paperback, $28.  NEW.

Joseph L. Baird & Radd K. Ehrman, ed., The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen, 2 vol. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994-1998) paperback, $19 per volume.

Harvey Egan, ed., An Anthology of Christian Mysticism (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991) paperback, $28.

Elizabeth Spearing, ed., Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality (New York: Penguin Books, 2002) paperback, $14. 

Barry Windeatt, ed., English Mystics of the Middle Ages (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), hardcover, $60.

 

 6. CONCILIARISM & THE ROOTS OF THE REFORMATION

 

Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300-1870 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) hardcover, $125.  This is the place to start on one of the most important and overlooked trends in the history of Christianity, the attempt to create an alternative to the papal monarchy.  Oakley is always lucid.

 

J.H. Burns & Thomas Izbicki, eds., Conciliarism and Papalism, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) paperback, $30.  A valuable collection of source documents.

 

Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1986) paperback, $20.

Brian Patrick McGuire, Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2005) paperback, $30.

Brian Patrick McGuire, A Companion to Jean Gerson, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden / Boston: E.J. Brill, 2006) hardcover, $124.  NEW.

Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979) paperback, $12.

Francis Oakley, The Political Thought of Pierre d’Ailly: The Voluntarist Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964).

Heiko A. Oberman & Charles Trinkhaus, ed., The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Reformation Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974).

Heiko A. Oberman, Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1992) paperback, $30.

Heiko A. Oberman, The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963).

Heiko A. Oberman, The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications, (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 199_) paperback, $29.

Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980) paperback, $20.  Widely used, but dated in many respects.

Matthew Spinka, John Hus at the Council of Constance (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965).

Thomas N. Tentler, Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977).

Brian Tierney, Foundations of the Conciliar Theory: The Contribution of the Medieval Canonists from Gratian to the Great Schism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955).  A classic.

 

 7. HERESY, WITCHCRAFT, & MILLENARIANISM

 

Robert E. Lerner, The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972) paperback, $19.  The so-called heretics of the Free Spirit claimed that they had achieved union with God, that they were God, and so had no need of Church or conventional morals.  At least that’s what their enemies (inquisitors) accused them of saying.  But as Lerner shows, inquisitors’ accusations and real heresy are quite different matters.  This study is fine example of how to read medieval documents with a critical eye.  A fascinating look behind what made headlines in the Middle Ages.

 

Malcolm Lambert, Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation, 2^nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992) paperback, $37.  The most comprehensive survey of medieval heresy.  Lambert, whose studies on the Spiritual Franciscans are the standard, here studies not only the Spirituals, but also the Waldensians, the Cathars, the Joachimites, the Lollards, and many others.

 

Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Montaillou: the Promised Land of Error, trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Vintage, 1979) paperback, $17.  A widely-acclaimed case study of life in a medieval town.  Ladurie gleans his portrait from the records of the local inquisition which was led by Jacques Fourier would go on to become Pope Benedict XII.

 

Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993) paperback, $18.

Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) paperback, $12.

Dyan Elliot, Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) paperback, $20.  .

Heinrich Fichetenau, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 (Penn. State University Press, 1998) hardcover, $45.

Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, & Cary J. Nederman, eds., Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005) hardcover, $100.

Richard Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) paperback, $15.

Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

Alan C. Kors & Edward Peters, ed., Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: a Documentary History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).

Malcolm Lambert, The Cathars (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) paperback.

Carol Lansing, Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $20.

Gordon Leff, Heresy in the Later Middle Ages: the Relation of Heterodoxy to Dissent, 1250-1450, 2 vol. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967).

Bernard McGinn, Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (reprint of 1993 edition: New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) paperback, $18.

Bernard McGinn, ed., Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages, rev. ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) paperback, $22.  An anthology of apocalyptic texts.

Shannon McSheffrey, Gender and Heresy: Men and Women in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) paperback, $20.

R.I. Moore, The Birth of Popular Heresy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976).

R.I. Moore, The Origins of European Dissent, Medieval Reprints for Teaching 30 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) paperback, $18.

Edward Peters, Heresy and Order in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980).

Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (reprint: Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) paperback, $23.  A classic study, now back in print.

Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972).

Jeffrey Burton Russell, Dissent and Order in the Middle Ages (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992).

Stephen O’Shea, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars (Walker & Co., 2001) paperback, $15.

Walter L. Wakefield, trans. Heresies of the High Middle Ages: Selected Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), paperback.

 

 

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