Julian of Norwich

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Julian of Norwich was a religious visionary whose experiences of the divine came to her in the later fourteenth century. She was also something that no Englishwoman had been before her: the author of a treatise offering spiritual guidance to others which achieved wide currency.
Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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Milestones

January 1343

The future Julian of Norwich was born, perhaps in East Anglia, perhaps in Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.
She says she was thirty years and a half when she had the illness in which she saw her visions.
Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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It has usually been assumed that she was born, as she lived, at Norwich. But northern forms in some of her manuscripts suggest that she may have moved from further north.
Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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February 1393

Nearly twenty years after her visions, Julian of Norwich felt herself prepared to record their meaning.
Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love, edited by Frances Beer, Carl Winter, pp. 7-37.
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Probably after 1416

Julian of Norwich died in her anchorhold in Norwich.
The last evidence of her being alive is often named as the preface to the short manuscript of her text, 1413. But Isabel, Countess of Suffolk , made a bequest to her in 1416.
Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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Biography

Birth

January 1343

The future Julian of Norwich was born, perhaps in East Anglia, perhaps in Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.
She says she was thirty years and a half when she had the illness in which she saw her visions.
Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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It has usually been assumed that she was born, as she lived, at Norwich. But northern forms in some of her manuscripts suggest that she may have moved from further north.
Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198.
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Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, pp. 101-24.
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