

Focusing on Julian's Book of Showings, in which the author records a series of revelations she received during a critical illness in May 1373, Baker provides the first historical assessment of Julian's significance as a writer and thinker. (1978) Colledge and Walsh also published an English translation, Showings, in the same year.The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the "motherhood" of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, "all shall be well." In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great originality. by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh in 2 vol. A critical edition in Middle English of both the short and long versions of her account is A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich, ed. Never beatified, Julian is honoured on the unofficial feast day of May 13. The clarity and depth of her perception, the precision and accuracy of her theological presentation, and the sincerity and beauty of her expression reveal a mind and personality of exceptional strength and charm. Unparalleled in English religious literature, Revelations spans the most profound mysteries of the Christian faith-such as the problems of predestination, the foreknowledge of God, and the existence of evil. On May 13, 1373, Julian was healed of a serious illness after experiencing a series of visions of Christ’s suffering and of the Blessed Virgin, about which she wrote two accounts the second, longer version was composed 20 or 30 years after the first.


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