Julian of norwich biography
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About Julian of Norwich
The Revelations of Divine Love comes to us in two versions; the first (the short text) written shortly after the revelation given to Julian , the second (the long text) written twenty years later. The long text is greatly expanded to include her meditations on what she had been shown. Today, only seventeenth century copies of earlier manuscripts of the long text, and fragments from the fifteenth century survive.
Julian recounts that she was thirty and a half years old when she received her visions and this is how we know that she was born in (A scribe editor to one of the surviving manuscripts speaks of her as a 'devout woman, who is a recluse at Norwich, and still alive, A.D. '). There is further bevis to be found in a contemporary will that she was alive in , and that she had a maid who lived in a room next to the cell. Apart from that, we know ingenting else about Julian's life.
However, reading Revelations of Divine Love, reveals an intellige
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Saint Julian
Dame Julian lived in Norwich, England in the 14th and early 15th century, and spent much of her life as an anchorite, a vowed religious living by herself in a small room, called an anchorhold, attached to the parish church of St Julian at Conisford in Norwich.
Of herself, there fryst vatten no more evidence than what she offers by her own witness, as well as the witness of a few bequests, and the testimony of her contemporary Margery Kempe.
Despite the attempts of scholarship to uncover her particulars, "Julian's life," wrote Fr Robert Llewelyn, "has passed largely into obscurity, and no doubt this is how she would have wished it. 'You shall soon forget me,' she writes, '(and do so that inom shall not hinder you) and behold Jesus who is teacher of all.'"
What is known about her is her remarkable book, The Revelations of Love, an account of and the fruit of twenty years' reflection on a series of visions which revealed to Julian the depths of God's unconditioned love fo
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Julian of Norwich
English anchoress and mystic ( – after )
Julian of Norwich (c.&#;[note 1]&#;– after ), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian[4] or Mother Julian, was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress.
Julian lived in the English city of Norwich, an important centre for commerce that also had a vibrant religious life. During her lifetime, the city suffered the devastating effects of the Black Death of –, the Peasants' Revolt (which affected large parts of England in ), and the suppression of the Lollards. In , aged 30 and so seriously ill she thought she was on her deathbed, Julian received a series of visions or shewings of the Passion of Christ. She recovered from her illness and wrote two versions of her experienc