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The Short Text: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman
A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman
The first version of the account of the visions of May 1373, in twenty-five chapters. It narrates the three gifts requested, the illness, the crucifix and the sixteen showings in a more personal and immediate tone than the long version: Julian presents herself as a woman and apologises for teaching ('Should I believe, because I am a woman, that I ought not to tell you of the goodness of God?'). It does not yet contain the example of the lord and the servant or the theology of Christ's motherhood. It is the earliest surviving English text known to be by a woman.
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Authorship note
Autograph lost. Sole witness: British Library, Add. MS 37790 (the Amherst manuscript), copied c. 1435–1450, whose rubric says the author, 'recluse at Norwich', was still alive in 1413. Date of composition debated: traditionally soon after 1373; Nicholas Watson places it in the 1380s.
Editions and translations
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English
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
Oxford University Press, 2015
Translation: Barry Windeatt
ISBN 9780199641185
Oxford World's Classics; incluye las dos versiones.
The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006
ISBN 9780271029085
Edición de Nicholas Watson y Jacqueline Jenkins.
Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text and Long Text)
Penguin Books, 1998
Translation: Elizabeth Spearing
ISBN 9780140446739
Introducción y notas de A. C. Spearing.
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978
ISBN 9780888440358
Edición crítica de Edmund Colledge y James Walsh, con ambos textos (2 vols.).
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Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love: The Shorter Version Ed. from B. L. Add. MS 37790
The Conscious LibraryJulian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love: The Shorter Version Ed. from B. L. Add. MS 37790
Carl Winter, 1978
ISBN 9783533026921
Edición de Frances Beer.
Other works by Julian of Norwich
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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