'The shortness of the book means that the author proceeds in a stately but well-timed pace.' - Contemporary Review"This series more than any other has resurrected interest in whole legions of spiritual writers who would otherwise have been neglected...a good, clear and helpful read. A useful reference that is a good addition to present scholarship on the subject." Peter Tyler, Food for the Journey - Books

• List of plates and timelines, Acknowledgements, Plates, Prologue, I Origins, II The Eastern Church, III The Western Church in the Middle Ages, IV Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the efflorescence, V Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism, Epilogue, Notes, Glossary, Timelines, Bibliography, Index

'The shortness of the book means that the author proceeds in a stately but well-timed pace.' - Contemporary Review"This series more than any other has resurrected interest in whole legions of spiritual writers who would otherwise have been neglected...a good, clear and helpful read. A useful reference that is a good addition to present scholarship on the subject." Peter Tyler, Food for the Journey - Books

• List of plates and timelines, Acknowledgements, Plates, Prologue, I Origins, II The Eastern Church, III The Western Church in the Middle Ages, IV Mystics in Early Modern Europe: the Reformation, the efflorescence, V Post-Reformation mystics in England and America: the twentieth-century revival of mysticism, Epilogue, Notes, Glossary, Timelines, Bibliography, Index