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Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love

by Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416) was an English anchoress who lived in a cell attached to St Julian's Church in Norwich. In 1373, during a near-fatal illness, she received a series of visions of Christ's suffering, which she spent decades pondering. Her Revelations of Divine Love, represented in our library also by Comfortable Words for Christ's Lovers, is the earliest surviving book in English known to be by a woman.

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First published
1395
Category
Devotional
Length
54k words · about 4 hours
Chapters
87
Modernized version
In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 90% of the original wording.
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About this book

The Revelations of Divine Love record the sixteen visions, or 'showings,' granted to Julian of Norwich during a grave illness in 1373, and her twenty years of meditation on them. Julian, an anchoress enclosed beside a Norwich church, explores Christ's sufferings and God's love with striking tenderness and theological depth. It is the earliest surviving book in English known to be by a woman.

Contents

  1. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE · CHAPTER I
  2. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE · CHAPTER II
  3. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE · CHAPTER III
  4. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER IV
  5. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER V
  6. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER VI
  7. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER VII
  8. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER VIII
  9. THE FIRST REVELATION · CHAPTER IX
  10. THE SECOND REVELATION · CHAPTER X 🔒
  11. THE THIRD REVELATION · CHAPTER XI 🔒
  12. THE FOURTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XII 🔒
  13. THE FIFTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XIII 🔒
  14. THE SIXTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XIV 🔒
  15. THE SEVENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XV 🔒
  16. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XVI 🔒
  17. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XVII 🔒
  18. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XVIII 🔒
  19. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XIX 🔒
  20. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XX 🔒
  21. THE EIGHTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXI 🔒
  22. THE NINTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXII 🔒
  23. THE NINTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXIII 🔒
  24. THE TENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXIV 🔒
  25. THE ELEVENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXV 🔒
  26. THE TWELFTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXVI 🔒
  27. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXVII 🔒
  28. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXVIII 🔒
  29. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXIX 🔒
  30. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXX 🔒
  31. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXI 🔒
  32. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXII 🔒
  33. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXIII 🔒
  34. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXIV 🔒
  35. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXV 🔒
  36. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXVI 🔒
  37. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXVII 🔒
  38. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXVIII 🔒
  39. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XXXIX 🔒
  40. THE THIRTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XL 🔒
  41. THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XLI 🔒
  42. THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XLII 🔒
  43. THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER XLIII 🔒
  44. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLIV 🔒
  45. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLV 🔒
  46. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLVI 🔒
  47. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLVII 🔒
  48. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLVIII 🔒
  49. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER XLIX 🔒
  50. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER L 🔒
  51. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LI 🔒
  52. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LII 🔒
  53. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LIII 🔒
  54. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LIV 🔒
  55. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LV 🔒
  56. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LVI 🔒
  57. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LVII 🔒
  58. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LVIII 🔒
  59. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LIX 🔒
  60. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LX 🔒
  61. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LXI 🔒
  62. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LXII 🔒
  63. ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS · CHAPTER LXIII 🔒
  64. THE FIFTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXIV 🔒
  65. THE FIFTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXV 🔒
  66. THE FIFTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXVI 🔒
  67. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXVII 🔒
  68. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXVIII 🔒
  69. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXIX 🔒
  70. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXX 🔒
  71. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXI 🔒
  72. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXII 🔒
  73. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXIII 🔒
  74. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXIV 🔒
  75. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXV 🔒
  76. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXVI 🔒
  77. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXVII 🔒
  78. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXVIII 🔒
  79. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXIX 🔒
  80. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXX 🔒
  81. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXXI 🔒
  82. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXII 🔒
  83. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXXIII 🔒
  84. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXXIV 🔒
  85. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXXV 🔒
  86. THE SIXTEENTH REVELATION · CHAPTER LXXXVI 🔒
  87. POSTSCRIPT BY A SCRIBE 🔒

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