Julian of Norwich: Texts and Contexts Website © Julia Bolton Holloway, 1997
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THE GODFRIENDS' WEBSITE
I. Julian of Norwich, Her Showing of Love and Its Contexts
This Website presents essays on Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in an English medieval city in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and it discusses the use and preservation of her text, the Showing of Love, through time.
II. Birgitta of Sweden and her Revelationes
This Website gives essays and materials concerning Birgitta of Sweden, mother of eight children, who travelled on pilgrimage to Trondheim, Compostela, Rome, Jerusalem, who wrote a major book, the Revelationes, placed in the hands of Popes, Emperors, Cardinals, Bishops, Kings, Hermits, Anchoresses, Laypeople, and who influenced Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena.
This Website, still in progress, seeks to unlock the wisdom of books, written by women as well as men, how to read a manuscript with paleography and codicology, and how to use the great European libraries, questing in them the spiritual treasures of the past for the future, seeing computers as but a stage in technology that began with the invention of the alphabet. We borrow its title from Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae.
This Website is concerned with healing of trauma to soul, mind and body.
This Website invites essays in the areas of Anglo-Italian Studies. It exists partly because of the discovery of tremendous yearning for lost Italian culture amongst exiles abroad, where, for instance, the grandparents speak Italian only, the grandchildren, English, with the need to bridge this chasm for the preservation of religion and culture. So we plan to present a bi-lingual Website of value for both language and textual communities, a cyber City of the Soul, as was and is exiled Dante's Florence in his Commedia.
Welcome to to the World Wide Web:
In the Middle Ages a group of men and women networked across Europe and wrote books for the contemplative life. They were called the 'Friends of God'. English grammar allows us to place God first, hence 'Godfriends'. We began in a theological library in Sussex; from there we have established a similar network, on the Web and for the entire World. We are now in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and America. We are ecumenical. We welcome you on our Godfriends' Discussion List.
{When troubled Margery Kempe came from Lynn to visit Julian in her Norwich anchorhold, they discoursed on the City in the Soul, and how it is through the Soul and Spirit that the mind and the body find healing, wholeness, peace. Cain built the first city of man, but Abel was a pilgrim and built none, seeking that of God only. Both Julian and Margery wrote books, speaking from their past to our present and your future. This Godfriends' Website is a City of the Soul, an Interior Castle, a cyber community, an internet anchorhold, beyond time and death. It is for you.
Go to the Juliansite Homepage.
Go to the Birgitta of Sweden Website
Go to Anglo-Italian Studies Homepage.
Book Reviews. Submissions Encouraged.
Bibliography.
Submissions Encouraged.
The Julian Library Portfolio,
1996.
© Copyright Julia Bolton Holloway (juliana@tin.it),
Fiesole
Website Design: Timothy E. Thompson (tethomps@syr.fi.it),
Florence
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Berlin
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This site last updated 10 October 1999.