Julian of Norwich
A Very Brief History
Published on 19. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-281-07684-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
In this lively and appealing introduction, we are enabled to meet a figure who is not a stereotypical 'mystic' from an alien cultural world, but a vigorous, warm and deeply imaginative writer, quietly but firmly turning inside out a number of conventional understandings of the nature and work of God. Nina Ramirez presents a Julian who is very much of her own age, yet for that very reason speaks to us as a three-dimensional personality. * Rowan Williams * A delight because it gives such a great understanding to the life and times of this inspired woman. * Towards Wholeness, Spring 2017 issue *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
129 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-281-07684-0 (9780281076840)
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10/2016
1st Edition
SPCK Publishing
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Person
Janina Ramirez is the course director on the Undergraduate Certificate and Diploma in History of Art at Oxford University. She has written and presented numerous BBC history documentaries, and is the author of The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, passion and politics in Anglo-Saxon England (W. H. Allen, 2015).
Content
Preface ix
Chronology xiii
Part 1
THE HISTORY
1 Introducing Julian 3
2 Julian's life and times 17
3 Themes in Revelations of Divine Love 37
Part 2
THE LEGACY
4 A brief history of Revelations of Divine Love 73
Notes 86
Further reading 89
Index 93
Chronology xiii
Part 1
THE HISTORY
1 Introducing Julian 3
2 Julian's life and times 17
3 Themes in Revelations of Divine Love 37
Part 2
THE LEGACY
4 A brief history of Revelations of Divine Love 73
Notes 86
Further reading 89
Index 93