"WOMEN MYSTICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE revives the exquisite mystical literature of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages: a Benedictine Abbess, a Cisterian Prior

Journey in prayer with great women mystics and, through the pern of mystical prayer, glimpse their profound intimacy with God. Gertrude the Great, Birgade of Sw

As anyone will discover who casually dips into this beautiful collection, the women mystics of Christian tradition offer a lucid alternative to today's more rat

Focusing on the lives and writings of five women mystics, the great theologian and spiritual writer Louis Bouyer shows that, far from relegating women to some i

Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.