All thisĪctivity testifies to the strong attraction to the modern mind Studies of Julian and her writings (8) have appeared. In addition, numerous essays and also full-length Of preparing a critical edition undertaken by the present Of the Revelations have been printed (7), and the task Modernized versions (6) and foreign translations of all or part Whole the idiom and vocabulary of a later fourteenth or early Number of doubtful readings, yet appears to preserve on the Though a later manuscript and most carelessly written, with a Text than have the Sloane Manuscripts, is slightly modernized inĭiction and has several inferior readings while Sloane 2499, Paris Manuscript, though it gives Julian's name and has a fuller Stowe, and the same is true of Westminster. Of the matter contained in each of the others, Paris, Sloane and Simple manuscript relationship is complicated by the followingĬircumstances: Additional 37,790 contains only about one-third The Paris Manuscript [the earliest extant version of the Long Westminster Cathedral Manuscript is circa 1500, while Mid-fifteenth-century, and Sloane 2499, Sloane 3705, giving the Long Text, are mid-seventeenth-century, the Known as the Amherst Manuscript, and giving the Short Text] is Of the British Library Manuscripts, Additional 37,790 [also The British Library, one is owned by WestminsterĬathedral and one is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. (4) book is extant in several manuscripts, of which four are in No affinities whatever with The Book of her famousĬontemporary and fellow-visionary, Margery Whose age and country she belonged: Rolle, Hilton, and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and Written in English by an anchoress of Norwich, has little inĬommon with the works of those great spiritual writers to Most surprising of all, perhaps, the matter of this book, With just enough rhetorical device to place it unmistakeably Is written in the most lucid and expressive English prose, Their desiring to blaze them abroad, if such favours wereĪctually experienced.(2) Moreover, despite the profoundnessĪnd sublimity of its subject-matter, the Revelations Receiving mystical favours at all, and still more against To begin with, itsĪuthor is a woman, a fact that at once challenged contemporaryĮnglish convention, firmly set as it was against women's Remarkable book in any age as a product of fourteenth-centuryĮngland it is something of a miracle. Ixteen Revelations of Divine Love would be a She has noĮ-mail address or Internet access, but letters can and do reachĬ.P., with the Edition of Julian of Norwich, Showing of She may be reached at Cross and PassionĬonvent, 22 Griffin Avenue, Marino, Dublin 8, Eire. Norwich, which she first edited for her University of Leeds She has published theĭefinitive edition of all the extant manuscripts of Julian of Many years of teaching, including university-level courses inĪfrica, has retired to Ireland, her native country, first to Stīrigid's Kilcullen and now to Dublin. Juliansite, out of courtesy, makes them more homely, moreįamiliarly known, to us. Because they are difficult to obtain today, the In the Revelations of Julian of Norwich', in Theįourteenth-Century English Mystics Newsletter, 2 (1979),ġ2-20. In English and Kindred Languages, 78 (1952), 18-28, the Julian of Norwich', was initially published in Leeds Studies Theįirst, 'Some Literary Influences in the Revelations of Scholarship, yet are as fresh today as they were then. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., long ago pioneered Julian LITERARY INFLUENCES IN THE REVELATIONS OF JULIAN OF || HER SELF || ABOUT HER TEXTS || BEFORE JULIAN || HER CONTEMPORARIES || AFTER JULIAN || JULIAN IN OUR TIME || ST BIRGITTA OF SWEDEN || BIBLE AND WOMEN || EQUALLY IN GOD'S IMAGE || MIRROR OF SAINTS || BENEDICTINISM || THE CLOISTER || ITS SCRIPTORIUM || AMHERST MANUSCRIPT || PRAYER || CATALOGUE AND PORTFOLIO (HANDCRAFTS, BOOKS Literary Influences on Julian JULIAN OF NORWICH, HER SHOWING OF LOVEīOLTON HOLLOWAY || JULIAN OF NORWICH || SHOWING
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