Revelations of Divine Love/the Motherhood of God

by Julian, Of Norwich

• ISBN13: 9780859914536
• ISBN10: 0859914534
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-20
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

Despite the strange and distant nature of her life and subject-matter, the works of Julian of Norwich remain immediate and compelling. Her Revelationsare recorded in two versions: the short text, or 'first edition', written near the time; and the better-known second version, which is both longer and more complex, completed some twenty years later. The short text, offering personal details edited out in her 'second edition', but which allow a better sense of Julian as a person, is presented here in translation. It includes also those chapters from the long text that describe Julian's doctrine of the Motherhood of God. The volume also contains an introduction, placing Julian in the larger context of the fourteenth-century English mystical tradition, and an Interpretative Essay. FRANCES BEERis Professor of English at York University, Toronto.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Introduction	1	(24)
Background	1	(3)
The 14th-Century Mystical Context	4	(12)
Julian's Temptation	16	(3)
The Importance of the Short Text	19	(6)
Revelations of Divine Love	25	(36)
Appendix: The Motherhood of God	61	(10)
Interpretive Essay	71	(10)
Bibliography	81	(10)
Index	91