Welcome to the 650th anniversary of the visions of Julian of Norwich, the woman who lived in an anchor-hold ... Julian’s thought has often been reduced to one resonant image: the hazelnut as a symbol ...

Liz Herbert McAvoy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008). See also Vincent Gillespie and Maggie Ross, “The Apophatic Image: The Poetics of Effacement in Julian of Norwich,” in The Medieval Mystical ...

Julian locks herself in a tiny cell for years. Despite limited contact with the outside world, she becomes one of the first women to write in the English language. Show more In Norwich ...