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The Writings of Julian of Norwich. A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love.

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Description for The Writings of Julian of Norwich. A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love. Paperback. Editor(s): Watson, Nicholas; Jenkins, Jacqueline. Series: Brepols Medieval Women Studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 250 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 853.

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343–ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as “a simple creature unlettered,” Julian is now widely recognized as one of the great speculative theologians of the Middle Ages, whose thinking about God as love has made a permanent contribution to the tradition of Christian belief. Despite her recent popularity, however, Julian is usually read only in translation and often in extracts rather than as a whole.

This book presents a much-needed new edition of Julian’s writings in ... Read more

• Separate texts of both Julian’s works, A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, with modern punctuation and paragraphing and partly regularized spelling.

• A second, analytic edition of A Vision printed underneath the text of A Revelation to show what was left out, changed, or added as Julian expanded the earlier work into the later one.

• Facing-page explanatory notes, with translations of difficult words and phrases, cross-references to other parts of the text, and citations of biblical and other sources.

• A thoroughly accessible introduction to Julian’s life and writings.

• An appendix of medieval and early modern records relating to Julian and her writings.

• An analytic bibliography of editions, translations, scholarly studies, and other works.

The most distinctive feature of this volume is the editors’ approach to the manuscripts. Middle English editions habitually retain original spellings of their base manuscript intact and only emend that manuscript when its readings make no sense. At once more interventionist and more speculative, this edition synthesizes readings from all the surviving manuscripts, with careful justification of each choice involved in this process. For readers who are not concerned with textual matters, the result will be a more readable and satisfying text. For Middle English scholars, the edition is intended both as a hypothesis and as a challenge to the assumptions the field brings to the business of editing.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
Brepols Medieval Women Studies
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271025476
SKU
V9780271025476
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About . Ed(S): Watson, Nicholas; Jenkins, Jacqueline
Nicholas Watson is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is co-editor of two Penn State Press books: The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520 (1999) and The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity (2003).J acqueline Jenkins is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She co-edited St. Katherine of Alexandria: ... Read more

Reviews for The Writings of Julian of Norwich. A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love.
“This is a fine and very welcome addition to the growing corpus of scholarly work on what may well be the most important work of Christian reflection in the English language.” —Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury “This is an edition like no other. Word for word and thought for thought, Watson and Jenkins give Julian’s texts the closest reading ... Read more

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