CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Part One: On Julian and Her Writings
Part Two: On Readers of Julian’s Writings
Part Three: On Editing Julian’s Writings
Part Four: On Using This Edition
A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman
A Revelation of Love
Textual Notes
APPENDIX: RECORDS AND RESPONSES, 1394-1674
A. The Westminster Revelation (with Hugh Kempster)
B. Bequests to Julian of Norwich, 1393-1416
C. Excerpt from The Book of Margery Kempe (chapter 18)
D. The Cambrai Nuns” Margaret Gascoigne and the Upholland Manuscript
E. Serenus Cressy’s Edition of a Revelation and the Stilling fleet Controversy
Bibliography (by Amy Appleford)
Nicholas Watson is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is co-editor of two Penn State Press books: The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520 (1999) and The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity (2003).J
acqueline Jenkins is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She co-edited St. Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe (2003).
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