Paulist Press: Classics of Western Spirituality Pre-1500 is a digital library of historical spiritual texts. Each volume is selected and translated by one or more scholars or spiritual leaders, with scholarly introductions and bibliographies of both primary and secondary materials. The series contains multiple genres of spiritual writing, including poems, songs, essays, theological treatises, meditations, mystical biographies, and philosophical investigations. Each selected work has had a huge influence on Christian devotion and have also been part of a long-standing tradition, influencing each other, and the understanding of prayer as a mode of thought. Works on Islamic, Sufi and Jewish spirituality are also included to fully reflect the development of western spirituality. This series provides unrivalled support for modern scholarship in the field through its accessible translations and critical apparatus to these classics of Western spiritual thinking, both well known and lesser known.

This product includes 76 volumes of texts dating prior to 1500, all translations of major works from the tradition. Many of the titles included are the definitive, and in some cases the only, English translations available.