Religious works - related to the mediaeval and renaissance periods
Books listed here are readily available and of general interest. Please use the search engine below to find many other titles.
The Tudor Era
Richard Rex - not an entertaining
read, but interesting for its Catholic perspective on the era.
Henry
VIII and the English Reformation
J. J. Scarisbrick
- the classic life, revised and updated.
Henry
VIII
Julian of Norwich:
The
Cloud of Unknowing, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
Clifton Wolters (original
author Anonymous)
Definitive work on mysticism
from the Middle Ages - incredibly beautiful
Praying
With the Saints : Julian of Norwich & Francis of Assisi (Reclaiming
the Sacred)
Jerry Moye
Two great mystics - one
an enclosed anchoress, the other a mendicant friar - introduce one to the
transformation one experiences from intense love for God.
Angels
and Angelology in the Middle Ages
David Keck
Alone
of All Her Sex: Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary
Marina Warner
Birth
of Purgatory
Jacques Le Goff
St.
Francis of Assisi
G. K. Chesterton
Revelations
of Divine Love (Penguin Classics)
Julian of Norwich, Clifton
Wolters
The
Age of Reform 1250-1550 :
An Intellectual and Religious
History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Steven Ozment
Thomas
Cranmer : A Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch
From
Cranmer to Sancroft : English Religion in the Age of Reformation
Collinson
Walter
Hilton : The Scale of Perfection
John P. H. Clark, Rosemary
Dorward
The
Apocryphal Jesus : Legends of the Early Church
J. K. Elliott
Three
Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought
Giles Constable
Bonaventure
:
The Soul's Journey into
God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis
Bonaventure, Ewert Cousins
St
Augustine of Canterbury
Michael Green
The
Cistercian World : Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
Pauline Matarasso
Lost
Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden
Rutherford Hayes Platt,
J. Alden Brett
The
Angelic Doctor : The Life and World of St. Thomas Aquinas
Matthew Bunson
St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica
Passage
Through Hell : Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds
David L. Pike
Forbidden
Mysteries of Enoch : Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil
Elizabeth C. Prophet,
Gustave Dore
Grail
:
From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
Roger Sherman Loomis
An
Aquinas Reader
Mary T. Clark
Gunpowder
Plot : Faith in Rebellion
Alan Haynes
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