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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2024
Parts of Julian's Showings are examined for their didactic quality, and her work is briefly compared to that of Mechthild and Hildegard. The commentary of Tobin, Chervin and others is alluded to, and it is concluded that Julian is an exemplary teacher.
1 LeClerc, Jean, “Preface,”Julian of Norwich: Showings, New York: Paulist Press, 1978, p. 3Google Scholar
2 Ibid., ibid.
3 Chervin, Ronda de Sola, Prayers of the Women Mystics, Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 1992, p. 71Google Scholar.
4 The short text in the LeClerc edition comprises pp. 125–170.
5 Ibid., p. 136.
6 The editors of the Paulist Press edition note in the “Introduction” that “Julian's book is by far the most profound and difficult of all mediaeval English spiritual writings …” (Showings, eds. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, “Introduction,” p. 22)
7 Mechthild of Magdeburg, in Beguine Spirituality, ed. Bowie, Fiona, New York: Crossroad, 1990, p. 69Google Scholar.
8 Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Rediscovering Women Philosophers, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999Google Scholar, passim.
9 Tobin, Frank, Mechthild of Magdeburg: a Medieval Mystic in Modern Eyes, Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995, p. 113Google Scholar.
10 Julian, Showings, p. 132.
11 Ibid., pp. 132–33.
12 Augustine, , Confessions, New York: Liveright, 1943, pp. 154–55Google Scholar.
13 Julian, Showings, p. 133.
14 Ibid., p. 134.
15 Ibid., p. 140.
16 Ibid., p. 142.
17 Ibid., p. 149.
18 Ibid., p. 148.
19 Ibid., pp. 150–51.
20 Ibid., p. 154.
21 Ibid., p. 155.
22 Krakauer, Jon, Under the Banner of Heaven, New York: Anchor Books, 2004, pp. 59–60.Google Scholar
23 Julian, Showings, p. 156.
24 Ibid., p. 164.
25 Chervin, Prayers, p. 72.
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