Name: Showings
ISBN: 9780809120918

Julian (of Norwich)

Julian of Norwich

beata Giuliana (di Norwich)

Classics of western spirituality

In the light of their thirteen years of work on the critical edition of Showings, Colledge and Walsh give us this first modern English rendering from their critical text.

Showings

Kylie Robinson

For a soul who sees the maker of all things, all that is made seems very small. 

Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchoress in the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless used the English vernacular of the day to describe an extraordinary series of "showings" that she received from God. Through her experiences, she identifies the female nature of Christ's suffering, the motherhood of God, and, using images from domestic daily life, emphasizes the homeliness of God's love. This new translation from the Middle English, which includes both the long and the short versions of her Revelations, preserves all the directness of expression and the rich complexity of her thoughts, offering a work that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Langland's Piers Plowman. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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