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Revelations of Divine Love (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. A 14th-century female mystic's contemplative journey into divine love, symbolic vision, and Christian insight

Revelations of Divine Love (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. A 14th-century female mystic's contemplative journey into divine love, symbolic vision, and Christian insight in Vernon, BC

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Revelations of Divine Love (Summarized Edition): Enriched edition. A 14th-century female mystic's contemplative journey into divine love, symbolic vision, and Christian insight

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Revelations of Divine Love gathers sixteen visions from 1373 into prose that joins affective devotion to bold, carefully reasoned theology. In lucid, homely Middle English, Julian meditates on Christ's passion, the motherhood of God, sin as "behovely," and creation as a hazelnut held in divine love. Existing as Short and Long Texts, it exemplifies late medieval English mysticism and the earliest known English book by a woman. An anchoress at St. Julian's, Norwich, Julian likely wrote after a grave illness at about thirty brought sixteen "showings," which she pondered for decades. Amid plague memory and social unrest, she offered counsel from her cell and shaped a coherent, pastoral theology formed by Scripture and liturgy rather than the schools. Scholars of theology and medieval literature, as well as seekers of contemplative wisdom, will find this a bracing, consoling companion. Read slowly: its circling chapters return to mercy until the promise that "all shall be well" sounds both rational and radiant. For vernacular spirituality and resilient hope, Julian's Revelations is indispensable. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Revelations of Divine Love gathers sixteen visions from 1373 into prose that joins affective devotion to bold, carefully reasoned theology. In lucid, homely Middle English, Julian meditates on Christ's passion, the motherhood of God, sin as "behovely," and creation as a hazelnut held in divine love. Existing as Short and Long Texts, it exemplifies late medieval English mysticism and the earliest known English book by a woman. An anchoress at St. Julian's, Norwich, Julian likely wrote after a grave illness at about thirty brought sixteen "showings," which she pondered for decades. Amid plague memory and social unrest, she offered counsel from her cell and shaped a coherent, pastoral theology formed by Scripture and liturgy rather than the schools. Scholars of theology and medieval literature, as well as seekers of contemplative wisdom, will find this a bracing, consoling companion. Read slowly: its circling chapters return to mercy until the promise that "all shall be well" sounds both rational and radiant. For vernacular spirituality and resilient hope, Julian's Revelations is indispensable. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

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