The Writings Of Julian Of Norwich: A Vision Showed To A Devout Woman And A Revelation Of Love (Brepols Medieval Women Series)

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (Brepols Medieval Women Series)

About the AuthorNicholas 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).Jacqueline 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).Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as