Nothing can be claimed about Julian’s life since all that is known is what she mentions in her work. The beauty of the work and the complete lack of biographical information on the author has encouraged later writers and scholars to construct their own biographies for her based on ‘clues’ they seize upon in the book which are then linked to knowledge of life in the Middle Ages. 1605–1674 CE) under the title Sixteen Revelations on the Love of God in 1670 CE. Her book of brilliant, mystical revelations has intrigued and inspired reading audiences since they were first published by the Benedictine monk Serenus de Cressy (l. 1413 CE and, along with bequests left to her in wills, substantiates Julian’s historicity. Neither version seems to have been known during her lifetime, but she was much sought after for spiritual counsel and became famous for her wisdom and piety. At some point in the 1390’s CE, Julian returned to the work and expanded it to create the manuscript now known as the Long Text. This early version of her visions is known today as the Short Text. These visions lasted throughout the afternoon of CE (15 of them) and a final vision the next evening (for a total of 16), when she woke completely cured and, shortly afterwards, wrote them down. The parish curate administered last rites, and she began to experience visions from God. Julian of Norwich in the Norwich Cathedral, EnglandĪccording to her book, when Julian was 30 and a half years old, she was struck with an illness so severe she knew she would not survive.
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