![]() ![]() ![]() In May 1373, when Julian was thirty years old, she became severely ill. 604), from whose Life of Saint Benedict she quotes. around 1327), but the only two writers whom she mentions by name are Dionysius the Areopagite (c. She was probably familiar with the writings of William of Saint-Thierry (d. Although scholars have traced many general theological influences in Julian's book, specific influences are hard to identify, so thoroughly assimilated are they into a theology that is at once deeply traditional and highly original. Highly literate -despite a polite disclaimer in her book Revelations of Divine Love -and demonstrating a knowledge of the Vulgate rare for a layperson of her day, she was the first woman to compose a literary work in English. Against a background of war, plague, social turmoil, and religious unrest she shared in a flowering of English mysticism along with Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing. Julian lived in the century in which Europe was ravaged by the Black Death, and England and France were torn by the Hundred Years War. JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342 –1416?), known as Lady Julian, Dame Julian, and Mother Julian, was an English mystic and Christian theologian. ![]()
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