Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love1373
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
Reference
Julian’s manuscripts were published for the first time in 1670 under the title XVI Revelations of Divine Love, shewed to a devout servant of Our Lord, called Mother Juliana, an Anchorete of Norwich: Who lived in the Dayes of King Edward the Third by Serenus de Cressy. Cressy based his book on the Long Text, developed by her over a number of years, of which three manuscript copies survive. Henry Collins published a new version of the book in 1877, and Grace Warrack’s another one in 1901, which included modernised Ensglish language.
Julian’s shorter work, which may have been written not long after Julian’s visions in May 1373, is now known as her Short Text. As with the Long Text, the original manuscript was lost, but a copy was found in 1910, in a collection of contemplative medieval texts bought by the British Museum It was published by Rvd. Dundas Harford in 1911. Later it has been published by Penguin Classics several times.
