Julian of Norwich
English theologian and anchoress · United Kingdom · Academics · Lived 1342 to 1500 · aged 158
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Something wrong?Julian of Norwich, also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman.
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Part of the manuscript (c. 1440) dictated by the mystic Margery Kempe to a scribe, in which she mentions visiting "dame jelyan" (British Library)
The beginning of the 15th-century Short Text. "Here es a vision schewed be the goodenes of god to a devoute woman and hir name es Julyan that is recluse atte Norwyche and ȝitt ys on lyfe anno domini millesimo ccccxiii". (BL, Add MS 37790)
A bishop blessing an anchoress, from MS 079: Pontifical (c. 1400 - c. 1410), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
First edition of XVI Revelations of Divine Love (1670)
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About this person
Julian of Norwich, also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress. 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.
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