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THE JULIAN SUMMIT, KILCULLEN, IRELAND
PROGRESS REPORT ON EDITING JULIAN OF NORWICH
From 2-10 September, three publishing Julian scholars met together in Ireland, one already living there, another coming from America through storms which delayed her flight, the third coming from Italy. All three, Sisters Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., Ritamary Bradley, and Julia Bolton Holloway, are collaborating on a five volume edition of the extant manuscripts of the Showings of Julian of Norwich. On 9 September they were joined by Ambrose Tinsley, O.S.B., himself the author of a book on Julian of Norwich, who drove over from nearby Benedictine Glenstall Abbey to join them.
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., of Kilcullen, who edited all the Julian manuscripts during the war years for her M.A., and D.Phil. Theses, University of Leeds. Subsequent editions have used her work, her sigla.
The tables in the parlour of the Cross and Passion Convent in St Bridget's Kilcullen, County Kildare, during that week, piled up with books, manuscripts, microfilms, and were always graced by Father Nathanael's icon of Julian of Norwich.
Sisters Anna Maria Reynolds C.P., Ritamary Bradley, S.F.C.C., Julia Bolton Holloway, H.F.
We were very much living Julian's own context of prayer, sometimes adjourning to say the Rosary in chapel amidst Irish voices, sometimes interrupting our work to say the Angelus, and always joining the Sisters for Matins, Mass, and Vespers. One day we went in search of St Bridget's Well. Otherwise we were intensely working at this project together, checking the text and the translation over and over again, discussing its points and its contexts, and marvelling at the team of women scribes and editors who had preceded us, centuries upon centuries of nuns' careful work, preserving a treasured text within first Brigittine, then Benedictine cloisters, at first in England, then in exile on the Continent.
Sisters Ritamary and Anna Maria
Sisters Ritamary Bradley, S.F.C.C., Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P, Julia Bolton Holloway, H.F.
We now calculate that the five volume edition, which carefully replicates seven of the extant eight Julian, Showings, manuscripts, letter for letter, word for word, line by line, folio by folio, and which gives a facing page translation into modern English for the first three, will be submitted for printing and publication at the end of this year. A preview of the work can be seen in the essay on this Website, Julian's Showings in a Nutshell: Her Manuscripts and Their Contexts.
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