English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

The present paper focuses on two famous Medieval English writings that have much in common: ‘A Revelation of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich and ‘The Book of Margery Kempe’. Both writings belong to the first books ever composed by women in the English language. Both appeared in Norfolk within the timespan of the second half of the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth centuries. Both can be attributed as spiritual autobiographies, and as such they also represent the first vernacular works of the genre for the English language. Since the second quarter of the twentieth century the writings by Julian and Margery have been profoundly studied. They are, however, more often analyzed independently than compared and contrasted in extensive research literature. The aim of the present paper is to show by means of comparison that already at an early stage English mystical writings displayed certain genrespecific and distinctive linguistic features. Julian (1342 – after 1416) was an anchoress at Norwich. Little is known about her life. Julian’s account of her illness allows us to establish the year of her birth: she was thirty and a half in 1373

The language of mystics in middle English texts by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe