Patristic, Medieval and later Christian Mysticism

McGinn, Bernard

• 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)

• The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. 

 Davies, Oliver

•  “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.

Jean Leclerq & Louis Bouyer,

• The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, vol. 2 of History of Christian Spirituality . New York: Seabury, 1968.

Michael Anthony Sells,

• Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). 

Paul Szarmach, ed.,

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

Denys Turner,

• The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.