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Julian of Norwich: Mysticism and Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Jane Duran
Jane Duran*
Affiliation:
Dept of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Email: jduran@education.ucsb.edu
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Abstract

Parts of Julian's Showings are examined for their didactic quality, and her work is briefly compared to that of Mechthild and Hildegard. The commentary of Tobin, Chervin and others is alluded to, and it is concluded that Julian is an exemplary teacher.

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Original Articles
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 90 , Issue 1029 , September 2009 , pp. 552 - 559
Copyright
© The author 2009. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK, and 350 Main Street, Malden MA 02148, USA

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References

1 LeClerc, Jean, “Preface,”Julian of Norwich: Showings, New York: Paulist Press, 1978, p. 3Google Scholar

2 Ibid., ibid.

3 Chervin, Ronda de Sola, Prayers of the Women Mystics, Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 1992, p. 71Google Scholar.

4 The short text in the LeClerc edition comprises pp. 125–170.

5 Ibid., p. 136.

6 The editors of the Paulist Press edition note in the “Introduction” that “Julian's book is by far the most profound and difficult of all mediaeval English spiritual writings …” (Showings, eds. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, “Introduction,” p. 22)

7 Mechthild of Magdeburg, in Beguine Spirituality, ed. Bowie, Fiona, New York: Crossroad, 1990, p. 69Google Scholar.

8 Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Rediscovering Women Philosophers, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999Google Scholar, passim.

9 Tobin, Frank, Mechthild of Magdeburg: a Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes, Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995, p. 113Google Scholar.

10 Julian, Showings, p. 132.

11 Ibid., pp. 132–33.

12 Augustine, , Confessions, New York: Liveright, 1943, pp. 154–55Google Scholar.

13 Julian, Showings, p. 133.

14 Ibid., p. 134.

15 Ibid., p. 140.

16 Ibid., p. 142.

17 Ibid., p. 149.

18 Ibid., p. 148.

19 Ibid., pp. 150–51.

20 Ibid., p. 154.

21 Ibid., p. 155.

22 Krakauer, Jon, Under the Banner of Heaven, New York: Anchor Books, 2004, pp. 59–60.Google Scholar

23 Julian, Showings, p. 156.

24 Ibid., p. 164.

25 Chervin, Prayers, p. 72.