Hildegard van Bingen (1098–1179)

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1. Hildegard van Bingen

   Author of Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard von Bingen, The Book of the Rewards of Life: Liber Vitae Meritorum

2. Matthew Fox

   Author of Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality (Meditation)

3. Joyce Rupp

   Author of May I Have This Dance?, Fresh Bread and Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment, Prayers to Sophia

4. Bernard McGinn

   Author of Meister Eckhart, Vol .1: Teacher and Preacher, Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality), Henry Suso: The Exemplar, With Two German Sermons (Classics of Western Spirituality)

5. Thomas Merton

   Author of Contemplative Prayer, Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions), Life and Holiness

6. John Van Engen

   Author of Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)

7. Hadewijch

   Author of Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)

8. Birgitta of Sweden

   Author of Birgitta of Sweden: Life and Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)

9. Barbara Newman

   Author of Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World

10. Saint Bonaventure, Cardinal

    Author of Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (The Classics of Western Spiritualit, The Life of St. Francis of Assisi [from the Legenda Sancti Francisci ]

11. Mechthild of Magdeburg

    Author of Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Godhead (Classics of Western Spirituality)

12. Gertrude of Helfta

    Author of Gertrude of Helfta: The Herald of Divine Love (Classics of Western Spirituality)

13. Angela of Foligno

    Author of Angela of Foligno : Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)

14. Marguerite Porete

    Author of The Mirror of Simple Souls

15. Edmund Colledge

    Author of Julian of Norwich: Showings (Classics of Western Spirituality)

16. Jacopone da Todi

    Author of Jacopone da Todi: Lauds (Classics of Western Spirituality)

17. Meister Eckhart

    Author of Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (Classics of Western Spirituality), Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

18. Richard of St. Victor

    Author of Richard of St. Victor: The Book of the Patriarchs, The Mystical Ark, Book Three of the Trinity (Classics of Western Spirituality)

19. James Walsh

    Author of The Pursuit of Wisdom and Other Works by the Author of the Cloud of Unknowing (Classics of Western Spirituality)

20. William C. Chittick

    Author of Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality)