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Julian of Norwich, Her Showings and Its Contexts, Website © Julia Bolton Holloway, 1997
Simone Martini, Museo Horne, Florence © Editrice Giusti de Becocci, SRL, Italy

THE JULIAN OF NORWICH WEBSITE

{Julian of Norwich lived in an English cathedral city in the fourteenth, and into the early fifteenth, centuries. A visionary, she wrote a theological treatise about her Showings that is of the greatest value in prayer and contemplation today. She may also have participated in a medieval form of the Internet, called the Friends of God, in which Mystics, both men and women, across Europe shared their contemplative texts and supported each other in their work of prayer, hallowing God and Creation.

The Julian of Norwich, Her Showings and Its Contexts, Website is an Internet version of the Julian Library Portfolio, a collection of booklets which began as a series of lectures given to Quakers on Medieval Mystics. The essays are intended for contemplatives, scholars and Godfriends everywhere. They are available here on the Internet and, where asterisked, also as printed and hand-sewn booklets, as fascicles in Florentine bound portfolios. They are graded as to whether most useful for General, Scholarly or Contemplative readers - but transgress those boundaries! Titles underlined in colour are hyperlinked and their essays can be called up by clicking on them. There is also a Discussion List, Godfriends-L. To subscribe, write to juliana@tin.it.

THE JULIAN LIBRARY PORTFOLIO:

Preface: Contemplating on Julian * (hard copy booklet version contains a sampler of parallel text and translation pages of the forthcoming two volume edition of the extant manuscripts of Julian of Norwich's Showings). General.

Helena, Egeria, Paula: The Bible and Women Pilgrims. General/Scholar. New.

Paula, Birgitta, Julian: Contemplating upon Hebrew * (booklet gives Hebrew). General/Scholar/ Contemplative.

Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Benedict, Gregory, and Dante: Julian's Mystical Philosophers.* General/Scholar/ Contemplative.

Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' * (booklet gives Ruthwell Cross Anglo-Saxon runes of poem). General/Scholar.

The Most Ancient Life of St Gregory the Great by a Monk or Nun at Whitby.* Latin and English. General/Scholar.

La Beata Umilta': Contemplating on Holy Humility (1226-1310)* (booklet gives tipped-on colour plates of Pietro Lorenzetti's polyptych in the Uffizi of the Life and Miracles of St Umilta'). General/Scholar/Contemplative.

The Amherst Golden Epistle. * (booklet version transcribes British Library, Amherst Manuscript, which immediately precedes Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love there.) Scholar/Monastic/General. Newest.

Godfriends: The Continental Medieval Mystics (Lioba, Hildegard, Mechtild, Porete, Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruusbroec). * General/Scholar/Contemplative.

Jan van Ruusbroec, The Sparkling Stone * (booklet transcribes British Library, Amherst Manuscript, which also contains Julian's Showings and which may contain her library of contemplative texts, replicating its manuscript format, in Middle English). Long. Scholar/Contemplative.

Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae or The Computer of Wisdom * (booklet version transcribes and translates Amherst Manuscript as parallel text, Middle and Modern English). Short. General/Scholar/ Contemplative.

The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa and Francesca of Rome. * General/Scholar/Contemplative.

Anchoress and Cardinal: Textual Communities and Gendered Audiences. (On Cloud of Unknowing and its Author in Relation to Julian of Norwich.) Scholar. New.

Julian of Norwich's Showing: The Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript * (excerpts in Modern English, complete Middle English version to be available in first volume of the Julian Showings edition). General/Scholar/Contemplative.

Julian's Web: The Showing's Structure. Newest.

A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle * (booklet transcribes medieval manuscript more exactly than can Internet transcription, in Middle English). Scholar/Contemplative.

Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript Contemplative prayers in a Julian-related manuscript at Lambeth Palace. Newest.

The Soul a City: Margery and Julian * (booklet transcribes the manuscripts in question in their medieval forms, with Middle English thorns, yochs and long tailed median s's). Scholar/Contemplative.

Julian of Norwich's Showings in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts and Their Contexts. Gives samples of Julian manuscript pages. Scholar/General/Contemplative. New.

Lecture in Norwich Cathedral, 1 December 1998. On Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B. Newest.

Maiju Lehmijoki, St Birgitta's Influence in Finland. General. New.

St John of the Cross, 'If You Would be Perfect'. * Spanish and English. General/Contemplative.

Margaret Gascoigne/Bridget More: Contemplating on Julian * (booklet gives photocopy of manuscript in Bridget More, O.S.B.'s handwriting of Margaret Gascoigne, O.S.B.'s contemplation on Julian of Norwich. Scholar/Contemplative.

Dame Barbara Constable, O.S.B., and the Upholland Manuscript Julian's Showings Fragment * (booklet gives photocopy of manuscript in Barbara Constable's handwriting of Julian of Norwich's Showings Fragment, and portrait of Barbara Constable, O.S.B.). Scholar/Contemplative. New.

'Colections': An English Nun in Exile. * Scholar/Contemplative.

Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. Two Essays on Julian: Some Literary Influences on the Revelations of Julian of Norwich; 'Courtesy' and 'Homeliness' in the Revelations of Julian of Norwich . Long. General/Scholar.

Don Divo Barsotti, C.F.D. 'The Optimism of Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Essay on the Showings' * (translated from Italian). Long. General/Contemplative.

The Lord's Prayer: Our Father, Julian of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein * (hard copy booklet gives Greek and Hebrew). General/Contemplative. New.

Edith Stein. Two Dialogues. From the Austrian Teresian Carmel. New.

Julian in Advent and Lent. Long. General/Contemplative.

Hazelnuts and Oliveleaves: Julian and the Trinity. Retreat Addresses at Lee Abbey. Long. General/Contemplative. Newest.

Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art. * General/Contemplative.

The Julian Summit in Ireland: Progress Report on the Two-Volume Julian, Showings, Edition. Newest.

Comunità dei figli di Dio/Community of God's Sons and Daughters. Contemplative. New.

Book Reviews. General/Scholar. New.

Bibliography. Scholar.

Links to Other Sites.

Vita. New.

• The Julian Library Portfolio of many of these booklets (the ones asterisked with *) is also available in hard copy form, bound in Florentine paper, from Julia Bolton Holloway, either using juliana@tin.it or writing to her at the address given below:
• Asterisked titles in hard copy may give coloured tipped-on plates, or photocopies of manuscripts, or the original Hebrew, Greek, Runes or Middle English, of material that is not accessible to the Web for copyright or technical reasons.
• You are encouraged to link to, print out or save any of the online materials listed here, if you courteously cite the source; with the exception of illustrative materials for which copyright may need to be renegotiated. Contact juliana@tin.it on exchanging links or copyright permissions..
• The Julian Website will continue to publish material related to Julian, both scholarly and spiritual, interactively. You are invited to make suggestions and submit material to share with others interested in Julian of Norwich and her Showings. Contact juliana@tin.it for details. Or write to:
  

Julia Bolton Holloway
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THE JULIAN OF NORWICH, SHOWINGS, EDITION OF ALL EXTANT MANUSCRIPTS:

The Julian Project is carrying out an edition in two volumes of the three versions of Julian of Norwich's Showings in the Westminster, Paris, Amherst, and Sloane Manuscripts, and including the Gascoigne and Upholland Fragments in its Appendices. It is based on the University of Leeds Theses submitted by Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., in 1947, 1956, checked anew against all the extant manuscripts and now transcribed letter by letter, line by line and folio by folio as they are in the earliest surviving texts.

Book Reviews. Submissions Encouraged.
Bibliography. Submissions Encouraged.
Tales. Submissions Encouraged
Prayers. Submissions Encouraged.

The Julian Library Portfolio, 1996.
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