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17%OFFJanina Ramirez - Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History - 9780281076840 - V9780281076840
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Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History

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Description for Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History Paperback. Series: VERY BRIEF HISTORY. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HB. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
VERY BRIEF HISTORY
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281076840
SKU
V9780281076840
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About Janina Ramirez
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). Her most recent TV documentaries include ‘Chivalry ... Read more

Reviews for Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History
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 ... Read more

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