Julian of Norwich: England's First Woman Writer?
Gone Medieval
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Revelations of Divine Love
She writes in English possibly because she had no Latin, but was there also a positive driver to write in English so that it could be shared more widely? We don't know. I imagine her as it were going through those thought processes. Lots of spiritual things are written in Latin. And she has the thought she won't be taken seriously if she doesn't write in Latin. But then she says, well, all I have is a liturgical Latin,. That's not very much Latin. So English became her choice. She knows she has the words in English to say these extraordinary things that have happened to her and they're difficult to explain. It's a very powerful, very immediate text
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