A very brief history

Written by: Janina Ramirez

Published by: SPCK

Price: £12.99

This book seeks to answer questions such as: who was Julian of Norwich? Why was her work important?

TV historian and medieval expert Janina Ramirez seeks to answer those questions and explore why Julian’s writing has endured and what can be learned from her work today.

Julian was a Christian mystic who experienced divine revelations as she was deemed to be on her death bed at the age of 30. Her visions formed the basis of her autobiography, The Revelations of Divine Love.

Ramirez seeks to show that Julian’s work was overshadowed by the work of male contemporaries and that her life – during a time of religious and social turmoil (including an outbreak of Plague) – merits greater interest and analysis by those interested in both theology and spirituality and literature.

Thanks to her specialist grounding in medieval history, Ramirez is able to flesh out the time of Julian’s life and offer insights which bring greater depth and understanding to the mystic’s writing.