-I have been reading Lady Julian of Norwich, - declares C.S. Lewis in a letter to his former pupil, the Benedictine mystic Bede Griffiths. -A dangerous book, clearly. I'm glad I didn't read it much earlier.- Thomas Merton wrote simply, -There can be no doubt that Julian is the greatest of the English mystics.-
Few texts have had held such interest or been the object of such enduring devotion as has Julian of Norwich's 14th-century classic A Revelation of Love. This great work -- along with The Cloud of Unknowing and Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle -- form the...

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 extraordinary intensity, but she also received assurance of God's unwavering...