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title	:	Revelations of Divine Love, Translated From British Library Additional MS 37790 : The Motherhood of God : an Excerpt, Translated From British Library MS Sloane 2477 Library of Medieval Women, 1369-9652
author	:	Julian.; Beer, Frances.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0859914534
print isbn13	:	9780859914536
ebook isbn13	:	9780585250540
language	:	English
subject	Mysticism--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	BV4832.2.J8513 1998eb
ddc	:	242
subject	:	Mysticism--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Page i Library of Medieval Women Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love The Motherhood of God An Excerpt

Page ii Library of Medieval Women ISSN 1369-9652 Series Editor: Jane Chance Already published Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector, Jane Chance, 1990 The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 1990 Saint Bride and her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations, Julia Bolton Holloway, 1992 The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (14391440), Maya Bijvoet Williamson, 1998 The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena, Dayle Seidenspinner-Nez, 1998

Page iii Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love Translated from British Library Additional MS 37790 The Motherhood of God An Excerpt Translated from British Library MS Sloane 2477 with Introduction, Interpretive Essay and Bibliography Frances Beer York University, Toronto D.S. BREWER

Page iv Translation and Editorial matter Frances Beer 1998 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1998 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 0 85991 453 4 D.S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343. [Revelations of divine love. English] Revelations of divine love : the short text, translated from British Library Additional MS 37790 : The motherhood of God : an excerpt, translated from British Library MS Sloane 2477 / with introduction, interpretive essay, and bibliography [by] Frances Beer. p. cm. (Library of medieval women, ISSN 1369-9652) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-85991-453-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Mysticism England History Middle Ages, 600 -1500. 2. Love Religious aspects Christianity. I. Beer, Frances II. Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343. Motherhood of God. English. III. Title. IV. Series. BV4832.2.J8513 1998b 242-dc21 97-40649 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by Athenum Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

Page v Contents Preface vii Introduction Background 1 The 14th-Century Mystical Context 4 Julian's Temptation 16 The Importance of the Short Text 19 Revelations of Divine Love 25 Appendix: The Motherhood of God 61 Interpretive Essay 71 Bibliography 81 Index 91

Page vii Preface Julian of Norwich would be deemed an extraordinary figure at any time. As the pre-eminent woman writer of the Middle English period, she is all the more remarkable, and considerable attention has justly been paid to her Revelations of Divine Love in recent years. The Revelations, in which she describes and discusses a sequence of mystical visions, exists in two quite different versions, the short and the long text, composed some twenty years apart. Existing translations and scholarly attention have both tended to focus on the later version, much the longer and more complex of the two, while the earlier version has not been accorded the attention it deserves as an independent composition. Not only does the short text, set down soon after her dramatic visionary experiences, record them in more immediate and personal detail, but its structure is clear and balanced, making the account more accessible and, it could be argued, more successful as a literary achievement. Certainly the short text is the only feasible introduction to Julian studies, whether for the undergraduate student or the interested lay reader. For such reasons a 'free-standing' scholarly translation of the short text is called for one which gives proper attention to its stature in the 14th-century theological and mystical context, to what it reveals to us of Julian as a person, and to its particular literary value.

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