THE JULIAN SUMMIT, KILCULLEN,
IRELAND
REPORT ON EDITING JULIAN OF NORWICH
rom 2-10 September 1998, three
publishing
Julian scholars met together in Ireland, one already living there,
another
coming from America through storms which delayed her flight, the third
coming from Italy. Sisters Anna Maria
Reynolds,
C.P ., Ritamary Bradley , and Julia
Bolton Holloway worked together on a two volume edition of the
extant
manuscripts of the
Showings of Julian of Norwich. On 9 September
they were joined byAmbrose
Tinsley , O.S.B., himself the author of a book on Julian of
Norwich,
who drove over from nearby Benedictine Glenstall Abbey to join them.
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., of Kilcullen, who edited all the Julian manuscripts during the war years for her M.A., and D.Phil. Theses, University of Leeds. Subsequent editions have used her work, her sigla.
Sisters Anna Maria Reynolds C.P., Ritamary Bradley, S.F.C.C., Julia Bolton Holloway, H.F.
We were very much living
Julian's
own context of prayer, sometimes adjourning to say the Rosary in chapel
amidst Irish voices, sometimes interrupting our work to say the
Angelus,
led by Sister Anna Maria, and always joining the Sisters for Matins,
Mass,
and Vespers. One day we went in search of St Bridget's Well. Otherwise
we were intensely working at this project together, checking the text
and
the translation over and over again, discussing its points and its
contexts,
and marvelling at the team of women scribes
and
editors who had preceded us, centuries upon centuries of nuns' careful
work, preserving a treasured text within first Brigittine, then
Benedictine
cloisters, at first in England, then in exile on the Continent.
Sisters Ritamary Bradley, S.F.C.C., Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P, Julia Bolton Holloway, H.F.
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds'
address
in Ireland is now:
Cross and Passion Convent
22 Griffith Avenue
Marino, Dublin 9
EIRE
See also:
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P.,
Courtesy
and Homeliness in Julian of Norwich;
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P.,
Some
Literary Influences in Julian of Norwich;
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P.,
The
Passion in Julian of Norwich.
Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love, definitive edition and translation, Firenze: SISMEL, 2001, available from SISMEL or from Julia Bolton Holloway. Scholar/ Contemplative/ General/
To see an example of a page inside with parallel text in Middle English and Modern English, variants and explanatory notes, click here.
To Julian
of Norwich, Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation,
ed. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and
Julia
Bolton Holloway (ISBN 88-8450-095-8), 848 pages, 18 full colour
plates
of the manuscripts, from University of Florence, SISMEL Edizioni del
Galluzzo,
2001, 191 euro, e-mail
order@sismel.itaor
Julia
Bolton
Holloway
Sister
Anna Maria Reynolds C.P. is the greatest editor Julian ever had. During
the war years she was transcribing the extant microfilms with a
microscope, a word at a time, for her Leeds University MA and Ph.D.
theses. Subsequent editions are based on her meticulous work. Now in
her nineties, blind, frail, she has created a fine CD in which she
discusses Julian with total recall of the text. It can be obtained for
12 euro from her at Cross and Passion Convent, 22 Griffith Avenue,
Marino, Dublin 9, EIRE.
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