![]() ![]() Julian's writings were not mentioned at all in any bequests, in which personal libraries of lay or monastic books were distributed within wills, as often happened for male authors at that time. The historian Janina Ramirez has suggested that their use of Middle English was a sensible choice, considering the inexplicable nature of what they were attempting to describe, as they could "couch their theological ruminations more as personal encounters with the divine". ![]() Her life was contemporaneous with four other English mystics-Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, and the unknown author of the work known as The Cloude of Unknowyng-all of whom wrote in the vernacular. To order a copy for £7.19, go to or call 03. It is more likely that they read and wrote in Middle English, their vernacular language, as Julian did. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich (Oxford University Press, £8.99). In the 14th century, women in England were generally barred from high-status clerical positions or other authoritative roles such as teaching, and their knowledge of Latin, the lingua franca of the day, would have been limited. It is the first book in English known to have been written by a woman. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich: 9780140446739 : Books One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside. ![]() Revelations of Divine Love is unique, as no other work written by an English anchoress seems to have survived. ![]()
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