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Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text and Long Text)

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One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature

After fervently praying for a greater understanding of Christ’s passion, Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century anchorite and mystic, experienced a series of divine revelations. Through these ‘showings’, Christ’s sufferings were revealed to her with bizarre intensity, but she also received assurance of God’s unwavering love for man and his infinite capacity for forgiveness. Written in a lively English vernacular, the Revelations are one of the vital original works of medieval mysticism and have had a lasting influence on Christian thought. This edition of the Revelations comprises both the short text, which is mainly an account of the ‘showings’ themselves and Julian’s initial interpretation of their meaning, and the long text, completed some twenty years later, which moves from vision to a daringly speculative theology.

Elizabeth Spearing’s translation preserves Julian’s directness of expression and the rich complexity of her thought. An introduction, notes and appendices lend a hand to place the works in context for modern readers. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most productive works all over history and across genres and disciplines. Readers consider the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and recent authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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