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    Julian of Norwich

    By Janina Ramirez

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    Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Based on a sequence of mystical visions she received in 1373, her book is called Revelations of Divine Love.





    Julian lived through an age of political and religious turmoil, as well as through the misery of the Black Death, and her writing engages with timeless questions about life, love and the meaning of suffering. But who was Julian of Norwich? And what can she teach us today?



    Medievalist and TV historian Janina Ramirez invites you to join her in exploring Julian’s remarkable life and times, offering insights into how and why her writing has survived, and what we can learn from this fourteenth-century mystic whose work lay hidden in the shadows of her male contemporaries for far too long.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSPCK
    Release dateOct 1, 2016
    ISBN9780281076857
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    Julian of Norwich
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    Janina Ramirez

    Dr. Ramirez is an Oxford lecturer, BBC broadcaster, researcher and author. She has presented and written over thirty hours of BBC history documentaries and series on TV and radio, and written five books for children and adults.

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    • 4/5
      Book received from NetGalley.The first time I had ever heard about Julian of Norwich was in my first British Literature class and I was fascinated by her. Her "Revelations of a Divine Love" are the earliest known surviving by a female writer. As soon as I saw this offered on NetGalley I requested it hoping to learn a bit more about this unique nun. Since Julian of Norwich lived in the Medieval era there is very little that can be found out about her life, prior to her becoming an anchoress. The book gives a bit more insight into her writing and just how rare something like this is. I suggest the book for those who study literature and history both since it will give more information on women writers in Medieval Britain.
    • 3/5
      I have a copy of The Revelations of Divine Love to read, but I figured that this would be a good start, putting the lady and her writing into context. I've seen a programme by Dr Ramirez on Julian of Norwich. It is interesting, we don't know much about her apart from what she chooses to tell. Her work is compared to some other English mystics of the same period in terms of the themes and language used in the book. The survival of the text itself is a mystery, in that it treads a fine line around being heretical and managed to survive the upheaval of the Reformation before a copy in a nunnery of English Nuns in France survived the French revolution. This is a short introduction to whet the appetite. As an aside, I love the cover design, with an image of Julian visible through the J shaped aperture of the front cover. A picture of her face is on the inside page. As an anchoress, she would have spent her time peering out at the world through a window this feels rather apt.