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The Long Text: Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

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The Long Text: Revelations of Divine Love

A Revelation of Love (Revelations of Divine Love)

Estatua de Juliana en la fachada oeste de la catedral de Norwich (David Holgate)
byJulian of Norwich

A reworking of the same visions in eighty-six chapters, the fruit of twenty years or more of meditation. Besides expanding each showing, it adds theological chapters: the example of the lord and the servant (ch. 51), in which Adam and Christ are both the servant who falls in serving; the teaching that there is no wrath in God and that sin is 'behovely' but has no substance; the 'substance' and 'sensuality' of the soul; and the motherhood of Christ and of the Trinity (chs. 58–63). It closes with the answer received 'fifteen years after and more': 'Love was his meaning'. It is the major work of medieval English mysticism.

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Authorship note

Autograph lost. Complete witnesses: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds anglais 40 (late 16th c.); British Library, Sloane MS 2499 (mid-17th c.) and Sloane MS 3705 (18th c.); extracts in Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4 (c. 1500) and in the St Joseph's College, Upholland manuscript (17th c.). First printed edition: Serenus Cressy, 1670. Date: after 1393 (ch. 51), perhaps continued into the fifteenth century.

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English

  • Showings: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism — Julian of Norwich

    Showings: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

    W. W. Norton & Co., 2005

    ISBN 9780393979152

    Norton Critical Edition, ed. Denise N. Baker.

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  • Showings — Julian of Norwich

    Showings

    Paulist Press, 1978

    Translation: Edmund Colledge y James Walsh

    ISBN 9780809120918

    Classics of Western Spirituality; traducción de ambas versiones a partir del texto crítico.

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  • Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

    Revelations of Divine Love

    Penguin, 1966

    Translation: Clifton Wolters

    ISBN 9780140441772

    Penguin Classics; texto largo modernizado.

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  • Revelations of Divine Love Recorded by Julian, Anchoress at Norwich, Anno Domini 1373

    Methuen, 1901

    Translation: Grace Warrack

    Versión modernizada del Sloane 2499; dominio público.

  • XVI Revelations of Divine Love

    s. n. (Londres), 1670

    Primera edición, preparada por el benedictino Serenus Cressy; reimpresa en 1843 y 1902.

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  • A Revelation of Love — Julian of Norwich

    A Revelation of Love

    University of Exeter, 1976

    ISBN 9780859890618

    Edición de Marion Glasscoe sobre el Sloane 2499.

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  • The Shewings of Julian of Norwich

    Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS), 1993

    ISBN 9781879288454

    Edición de Georgia Ronan Crampton sobre el Sloane 2499.

  • Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation — Julian of Norwich

    Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation

    SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001

    ISBN 9788884500953

    Transcripción de todos los testimonios, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway et al.

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Sources

  • Colledge, Edmund, y James Walsh (eds.). A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich. 2 vols. Studies and Texts 35. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978.

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