Preface
1 Sheila Upjohn, All Shall Be Well: Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich: Daily Readings from The Revelations (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1992), p. x.
2 From the address during the weekly Papal Audience, St Peter’s, Vatican, 23 March 2016.
1 Introducing Julian
1 Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), p. 1.
2 B. Wannenwetsch, ‘Luther’s Morat Theology’, in Donald K. McKim (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 120–36.
3 Quoted in J. Summit, Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
4 William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’, in Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), Complete Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 431.
5 Marion Glascoe, English Medieval Mystics: Games of Faith (London: Longman, 1993), p. 2.
6 Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (John Skinner, trans.) (New York: Doubleday, 1996).
7 Sister Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Julian: A Woman in Transition (Annual Julian Lecture, Norwich, 2000), p. 1.
8 Grace M. Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian (2nd edn, London: SPCK, 2000), p. 28.
9 Ancrene Wisse: Guide for Anchoresses (Hugh White, trans.) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993), p. 66.
10 Ancrene Wisse, p. 27.
11 Father John Julian, The Complete Julian of Norwich (3rd edn, Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2011), pp. 23–7.
2 Julian’s life and times
1 Carole Rawcliffe and Richard Wilson (eds), Medieval Norwich (London: Continuum, 2004).
2 Father John Julian, The Complete Julian of Norwich (3rd edn, Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2011), p. 30.
3 The Book of Margery Kempe (B. A. Windeatt, trans.) (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 77.
4 Father John Julian, Complete Julian, p. 385.
5 Rowan Williams, The Anti-Theology of Julian of Norwich (The 34th Annual Julian Lecture, 2014), p. 1.
3 Themes in Revelations of Divine Love
1 Grace M. Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian (2nd edn, London: SPCK, 2000), p. 40.
2 Ancrene Wisse: Guide for Anchoresses (Hugh White, trans.) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993), p. 193.
3 Cate Gunn, Ancrene Wisse: From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008), p. 59.
4 Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Dom Gerard Sitwell, trans.) (London: Burns & Oates, 1953), p. 230.
5 Father John Julian, The Complete Julian of Norwich (3rd edn, Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2011), p. 402.
6 Sarah McNamer, ‘The Exploratory Image: God as Mother in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love’, Mystics Quarterly, 15 (1), 1989, p. 26.
7 McNamer, ‘Exploratory Image’, pp. 21–28.
8 Jane Chance, ‘Heresy and Heterodoxy: The Feminized Trinities of Marguerite Porete and Julian of Norwich’, in Catherine Innes-Parker and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (eds), Anchoritism in the Middle Ages: Texts and Traditions (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013), pp. 61–82, esp. p. 68.
9 Jantzen, Julian of Norwich, p. viii.
10 Jantzen, Julian of Norwich, p. 167.
11 Denys Turner, ‘“Sin is behovely” in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love’, Modern Theology, 20 (3), 2004, pp. 407–22.
12 Carmel Bendon Davis, Mysticism and Space: Space and Spaciality in the Works of Richard Rolle, The Cloud of Unknowing Author, and Julian of Norwich (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008), p. 1.
13 ‘Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe’, in the column ‘Talk to Me: A Conversation Special’, The Guardian, 28 November, 2015.
14 The Cloud of Unknowing, Chapter 36; Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, Chapter 24.
15 Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (London: Chatto & Windus, 1946), p. 1.
4 A brief history of Revelations of Divine Love
1 Cristina Maria Cervona, ‘The “Soule” Crux in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love’, The Review of English Studies, 55 ( 219), April 2004, pp. 151–6.
2 Mary Lou Shea, Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation: Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Margaret Ebner and Julian of Norwich, American University Studies VII, Vol. 304 (New York: Peter Lang Publications, 2010), p. 1.
3 Umberto Eco, Baudolino (William Weaver, trans.) (London: Vintage Books, 2013), p. 434.
4 Thomas Merton, Seeds of Destruction (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1963), pp. 274–5.
5 Personal communication.
6 Personal communication.