Note: I haven’t read all of the books listed below. This is a combination of books I’d recommend and books I’d like to read. I am adding things here as I find them scattered throughout my notes, and will have to come back and clean this list up some day.
Reading List
Historic books
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Culture and Customs
Into His Own - Perspective on the world of Jesus
The Sociocultural Context of the Sermon on the Mount
Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity - David deSilva
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners and Customs
Authors & Books
Church History
The Pilgrim Church - E. H. Broadbent
Historians
Sextus Julius Africanus - Wikipedia
Suetonius on Christians - Wikipedia
Christian Scholars
Papias of Hierapolis - Wikipedia
Other Writings
Collection
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Light,Life, And Love (Eckhardt, Tauler, and Suso)
Anonymous
Anonymous-The_Cloud_Of_Unknowing
Theologia Germanica
Bernard of Clairvaux
On Loving God - Bernard of Clairvaux
Evelyn Underhill
Saint John of the Cross
Ascent Of Mount Carmel - Saint John of the Cross
Dark Night of the Soul - Saint John of the Cross
Walter Hilton
The Scale of Perfection - Walter Hilton
The Goad of Love - Walter Hilton (rare book)
Henry Suso
A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom - Henry Suso
Thomas a Kempis
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
Francis de Sales
Introduction to the Devout Life - Francis de Sales
Meister Eckert
Sermons by Meister (Johannes) Eckert
John Tauler
Sermons by John Tauler
Samuel Rutherford
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Francois Fenelon
Maxims of the Saints Spiritual Progress Existence Of God
Rulman Merswin
Books
The Amending of Life - Richard Rolle (rare book) The Life of the Servant (must purchase) The works of William Law The journal of John Fox The writings of Nikolaus von Zinzendorf The writings of Andrew Murray The writings of John Wesley The writings of A.B. Simpson