Margery Kempe

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Born	c.1373
Died	c.1440

Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

Augustine Baker

English monk

Julian of Norwich

English mystic

William Law

British author

Rolle, detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI)

Richard Rolle

British mystic

Hugh Paulin Cressy

English author and editor

Evelyn Underhill

British writer

Walter Hilton

English mystic and author

William Alabaster

English scholar

W. T. Stace

British philosopher

Jane Leade

English mystic

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life

St. Francis of Assisi

Italian saint

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish saint

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish philosopher

Mircea Eliade

Romanian religious historian and author

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

French abbot

Joachim Of Fiore

Italian theologian

Saint Bonaventure

Italian theologian

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