Julian's Cell

Susan McKnight is an administrator of the Courts Technology Integrated Justice Project at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

Born in 1342, Julian of Norwich was the first woman writer in English
and is regarded as one of the greatest Christian theologians and
mystics. Her works present a nurturing, mothering God who watches over
His creation with love and patience. As an anchoress at St. Julian’s
Church, Julian dispensed her wisdom to visitors with the same love and
patience.

This thoroughly engaging novel brings to life not only Julian (about
whom relatively little is known) but the tumultuous period in which she
lived. It was the time of the Great Papal Schism, with rival popes in
Avignon and Rome; the Peasants’ Revolt and emergence of the Lollards;
and the completion of the earliest version of the Bible in England.
During Julian’s lifetime, the Church still exerted a great deal of
power over government and society, and God was still viewed as a stern
master to be obeyed without question.

Ralph Milton is a retired church minister and the author of nine books,
including The Essence of Julian.