'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing
shall be well'
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English
Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and
profoundest thinkers of the period for her account of the revelations
that she experienced in 1373. Julian lived as an anchoress in Norwich,
and after recovering from a serious illness she described the visions
that had come to her during her suffering. She conceived of a loving and
compassionate God, merciful and forgiving, and believed in our ability
to reach self-knowledge through sin. She wrote of God as our mother, and
embraced strikingly independent theological opinions.
This new translation conveys the poise and serenity of Julian's prose
style to the modern reader. It includes both the short and long texts,
written twenty years apart, through which Julian developed her ideas. In
his introduction Barry Windeatt considers Julian's astonishingly
positive vision of humanity and its potential for spiritual
transformation.
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