Dear Johan – you’ve got me
worried now!
Is it coincidence that Julian’s
anchorhold was at the church of St Julian (St Edward and St Julian in the
Middle Ages) – or have we always assumed that was the church she was
attached to because of the coincidence of names? As has been pointed out, the
church was nearly destroyed in the second world war, and I believe it was in
the rebuilding of it that an anchorhold was rebuilt as a shrine, but tradition
associated her with the church before that, and I think there was evidence of an
anchorhold. Looking at Watson & Jenkins’ new edition of her
writings, the evidence of her existence apart from her writing includes the
will of John Plumpton, a Norfolk merchant, tho gave forty pence in 1414 to ‘le
ankeres in ecclesia sancti Juliani de Conesford in Norwice’ – the church
of St Julian’s is in the Conisford area of Norwich.
Cate (named after Catherine of Alexandria)
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Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dr. Eddie Jones of
Exeter University has recently written a fascinating article in which he
debunks the widely-accepted view that anchorites took the name of the church
they were attached to (when not attached to some other building).
He suggests that Julian was in fact Julian of Norwich's real name, and
concludes the article by asking "I wonder how much the resonances change
when 'the Lady Julian of
The article is due for publication in Mystics
Quarterly (www.mysticsquarterly.com). If Eddie grants permission I
can forward it to members off-list; just drop me a request.
I was allowed to see an advance copy because a proposal I made in my Masters
thesis - that an anchorite in
Best wishes,
Johan Bergström-Allen (Jo of Heslington!)
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