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Anne Bancroft.
The Luminous Vision: Six Medieval Mystics and their Teachings.

Published London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982.
ISBN 0041890019.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Billing & Sons, London & Worcester.
Size: 145x222x19mm.
Page count: [x], 194pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is scuffed and creased, rather yellowed with age, a bit of wear on its edges and corners; the spine is somewhat frayed at both ends, but otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 375g.

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Seeks to "bring together some of the medieval mystics and to relate the depths of their understanding to modern life".

Contents: Jan van Ruysbroeck; Julian of Norwich; Bernard of Clairvaux; Richard Rolle; Meister Eckhart; Cloud of Unknowing.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Index: yes


See also | Mysticism |

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