JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE

ENGLISH NUNS IN EXILE PORTAL


ulian of Norwich's text was treasured and preserved by, first, Brigittine, then, Benedictine nuns, all of whom had to live in exile following the Reformation.

In the text of Julian's Showing of Love the sections with (W) are from the Brigittine Westminster Cathedral Manuscript, likely written at Syon Abbey in London and which may have come to Syon Abbey in Lisbon through its Prioress Sister Rose Lowe, the sections with (P) are from the Paris Manuscript which had been in Rouen, brought there by the Brigittine nuns in exile under Elizabeth I, but left behind when they journeyed on to Lisbon, the sections with (G) being the Dame Margaret Gascoigne, Dame Bridget More Fragment, the sections with (U) being from the Upholland Fragment, the sections with (SS) being from the two Sloane Manuscripts, all of these (SS,U,G) being copied out in the seventeenth century by the English Benedictine nuns in exile at Cambray and taken by them to Paris.

DAME MARGARET GASCOIGNE, DAME BRIDGET MORE

DAME BARBARA CONSTABLE, UPHOLLAND MANUSCRIPT

'COLECTIONS', MAZARINE 1202,  I AND III

SPIRITUAL LETTERS OF ARCHBISHOP FÉNELON TO MADAME GUYON, MAZARINE 1202, IIA

SPIRITUAL LETTERS OF ARCHBISHOP FÉNELON TO MADAME GUYON, MAZARINE 1202, IIB

DAME GERTRUDE MORE'S DEFENSE OF FATHER AUGUSTINE'S WAY OF PRAYER, 'COLECTIUONS, MAZARINE 1202

No longer in exile. The English Benedictine nuns who had been of the daughter house to Cambrai in Paris, returned to England with their manuscripts at the French Revolution and came to be at Colwich Abbey in Staffordshire. Here is Dame Benedict OSB, who looks after these manuscripts, greeting you:


        
 

Their mother house at Cambrai also returned at the French Revolution and is now Stanbrook Abbey in Worcester. Among the manuscripts they lost at the French Revolution was likely Julian's autograph Showing of Love manuscript, written in the Norwich dialect, from which the Sloane manuscripts are copied. So, when Colwich Abbey closed, their nuns came back to the Mother House with their manuscripts and are now at Stanbrook, including Sister Benedicta.

Latest news. The Colwich nuns have now joined the Stanbrook nuns, their manuscripts in boxes there.

Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations Translated from Latin and Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Focus Library of Medieval Women. Series Editor, Jane Chance. xv + 164 pp. Revised, republished,  Boydell and Brewer, 1997. Republished, Boydell and Brewer, 2000. ISBN 0-941051-18-8

To see an example of a page inside with parallel text in Middle English and Modern English, variants and explanatory notes, click here. Index to this book at http://www.umilta.net/julsismelindex.html

Julian of Norwich. Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation. Edited. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and Julia Bolton Holloway. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo (Click on British flag, enter 'Julian of Norwich' in search box), 2001. Biblioteche e Archivi 8. XIV + 848 pp. ISBN 88-8450-095-8.

To see inside this book, where God's words are in red, Julian's in black, her editor's in grey, click here. 

Julian of Norwich. Showing of Love. Translated, Julia Bolton Holloway. Collegeville: Liturgical Press; London; Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003. Amazon ISBN 0-8146-5169-0/ ISBN 023252503X. xxxiv + 133 pp. Index.

 
'Colections' by an English Nun in Exile: Bibliothèque Mazarine 1202. Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family. Analecta Cartusiana 119:26. Eds. James Hogg, Alain Girard, Daniel Le Blévec. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2006.

Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton OSB. Analecta Cartusiana 35:20 Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-902649-01-0. ix + 399 pp. Index. Plates.

Teresa Morris. Julian of Norwich: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Handbook. Preface, Julia Bolton Holloway. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. x + 310 pp.  ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-3678-7; ISBN-10: 0-7734-3678-2. Maps. Index.

Fr Brendan Pelphrey. Lo, How I Love Thee: Divine Love in Julian of Norwich. Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway. Amazon, 2013. ISBN 978-1470198299

 

Julian among the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. xxi + 328 pp. VII Plates, 59 Figures. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8894-X, ISBN (13) 978-1-4438-8894-3.

Mary's Dowry; An Anthology of Pilgrim and Contemplative Writings/ La Dote di Maria:Antologie di Testi di Pellegrine e Contemplativi. Traduzione di Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotto. Testo a fronte, inglese/italiano. Analecta Cartusiana 35:21 Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2017. ISBN 978-3-903185-07-4. ix + 484 pp.

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