GODFRIENDS' WEBSITES ON JULIAN OF NORWICH, HER 'SHOWING OF LOVE' AND ITS CONTEXTS (original) (raw)

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MILTA'S TWELVE WEBSITES: TABLE OF CONTENTS

milta's twelve interwoven Websites, of which this is the Site Map, are: I. Julian of Norwich, Her Showing of Love and its Contexts, Website; II. St Birgitta of Sweden, Her Revelationes, Website; III. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages Website; IV. Mirror of Saints Website; V. Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women Website; VI. Our Anchorhold Website; VII. Its Scriptorium, The Computer of Wisdom Website; VIII. Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time Website; IX. The Amherst Manuscript Website; X. Its Library (Bibliography on Julian); XI. Heavenwindow: A Web of Prayer; XII. The Oliveleaf Website; and the Godfriends' Discussion List, bringing you a heritage, a word hoard, Julian's Web, created with light, from their past, through our present, for your future. We place these categories in a band at the tops and bottoms of all our pages. Further portals are being created, one on St Catherine of Siena, Julian's contemporary, another on Giorgio La Pira and Fioretta Mazzei, two modern candidates for sainthood, who shaped Florence as a Jerusalem.

There used to be an alphabetical index of proper names, but with Google in place this is no longer needed. The very alphabet we write on the Web is sacred, made of light, praising God, and as playful as is God's Daughter, Wisdom .

Julian of Norwich, Her Showing of Love and Its Contexts, Website General/Contemplative/Scholar

Welcome to Julian of Norwich's Anchorhold ~ ~ ~

****his Website presents essays on Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in an anchorhold in an English medieval city in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and it discusses the use and preservation of her contemplative text, the Showing of Love, through time. We can also offer tutorials on, for instance, Julian's Norwich, Dante's Florence.

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ER TEXTS:
Julian of Norwich Showing of Love* || Preface || Showing of Love I || Showing of Love II || Showing of Love III || Showing of Love: Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript * ||A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle *|| Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript || |Martin Buber's Julian of Norwich, 1909

ER SELF:
Timeline *|| Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, OSB || St Julian's Church, Isaac's House and Carrow Priory * || Julian and Judaism * || James Hogg Cardinal Adam Easton's Letter to the Abbess of Vadstena || Pontifical: Enclosing an Anchoress, Anointing the Dying, Crowning a King * || Dom Finbar Boyle, O.S.B.Julian's Raindrops from Eaves* || The Soul a City: Margery and Julian * || Chancellor/Archbishop Arundel, Constitutions, 1408 || The Earliest Latin/English Dictionary * || St Julian's Church, Isaac's House and Carrow Priory* ||

BOUT HER TEXTS:
Julian's Web: The Showing of Love's Structure || Julian of Norwich and Lectio divina *|| Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. Some Literary Influences on the Revelations of Julian of Norwich || Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts and Their Contexts || The Amherst Manuscript Project || Dom Finbar Boyle, O.S.B. Julian's Raindrops from Eaves* || The Soul a City: Margery and Julian * || Julian on Prayer || Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. 'Courtesy' and 'Homeliness' in the Revelations of Julian of Norwich ||Folio, Manuscript, Paleography, Codicology || John B. Lounibos Jesus as Mother: Julian's Medieval Midrash || O Wisdom, O Sapientia: Advent's Great O Antiphons || Syon Abbey: The XV O's of the Crucifixion || Nicholas Rogers,On the Syon Abbey XVOs || Crucifix: St Jerome, St Francis, Fra Angelico, Julian, Georgia O'Keefe || Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. The Passion in Julian of Norwich || Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Julian of Norwich, Revelation of Divine Love

EFORE JULIAN:
Mary and John: Women and Others in the Greek Scriptures || Saint Agnes and Saint Cecilia: Ambered in Eucharist || Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, and Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims || St Jerome on a Girl's Education: Epistula CVII to Laeta ||Jo Ann McNamara 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium' || Paula, Birgitta, Julian: Contemplating upon Hebrew * || Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Benedict, Gregory, and Dante: Julian's Mystical Philosophers* || Augustine Confessions . Ed. James J. O'Donnell. Latin text/English commentary. Link ~ || Regula Sancti Benedicti || Gregory the Great, Dialogues II, Life of St Benedict ||St Benedict's Blessing: Website on Relation of Benedictine Monasticism to Julian of Norwich*|| Sister Jane Morrissey Saint Scholastica, Saint Benedict: A Paradox, A Paradigm ||Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' * || The Most Ancient Life of St Gregory the Great by a Monk or Nun at Whitby* || Alexandra H. Olsen Saint Pega, Saint Guthlac, Hermits || Alexandra H. Olsen Saint Pega, Saint Guthlac in the South English Legendary || Alexandra H. Olsen Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth: Women Associated with Boniface || Margaret of Jerusalem/Beverley and Thomas of Beverley/Froidmont, Her Brother, Her Biographer || Thomas de Froidmont/'Bernard of Clairvaux' The Amherst Golden Epistle || The Book of the Anchoress. Christina of Markyate's St Albans Psalter. Link ~ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/index.shtml Link ~|| Guigo II A Ladder of Four Rungs || A Tower of Mirrors: Married Women Saints: Perpetua, Felicity, Helena, Paula, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Birgitta and Catherine of Sweden, Francesca Romana, Rita of Cascia || Jacques de Vitry on Marie d'Oignies Link ~|| Frater A on Angela of Foligno, Memorial, and Instructions Link ~

ULIAN'S CONTEMPORARIES:
Dante Alighieri and the 1300 Jubilee ||A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within, Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Heslyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton ||A Circle of Angels: Marie d'Oignes, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Francesca Romana ||La Beata Umilta': Contemplating on Holy Humility (1226-1310) * || Francesca Alexander, John Ruskin. St Zita of Lucca || Godfriends: The Continental Medieval Mystics (Lioba, Hildegard, Mechtild, Porete, Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruusbroec) * || Jan van Ruusbroec The Sparkling Stone * || Henry Suso Horologium Sapientiae or The Computer of Wisdom * || John Whiterig, O.S.B., Hermit of Farne, Contemplations on the Crucifixion || The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa and Francesca of Rome * || The St Birgitta of Sweden Website || St Birgitta of Sweden: Her Relics || James Hogg. Cardinal Adam Easton's Letter to the Abbess of Vadstena || A Tower of Mirrors: Married Women Saints: Perpetua, Felicity, Helena, Paula, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Birgitta and Catherine of Sweden, Francesca Romana, Rita of Cascia

See also E-Book, Congress Proceedings:

CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS/ GLI ATTI DEL CONVEGNO
THE CITY AND THE BOOK/ LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO II
THE MANUSCRIPT, THE ILLUMINATION/ IL MANOSCRITTO, LA MINIATURE
FLORENCE, SEPTEMBER 2002/ FIRENZE, SEPTEMBER 2002

I. THE MANUSCRIPT, THE ILLUMINATION/ IL MANOSCRITTO, LA MINIATURA: Omaggio a Fioretta Mazzei/ Homage to Fioretta Mazzei di Giannozzo Pucci, Presidente Associazione Fioretta Mazzei || Presiede: prof. Francesco Adorno, Ente Cassa di Risparmio, Presidente Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Presidente Accademia Colombaria || Introduzione: Julia Bolton Holloway, Direttrice Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Egeria,Itinerarium, prof. Pasquale Smiraglia, Accademia dei Lincei, Roma || Uno manoscritto sefardita a Firenze, prof.ssa Ida Zatelli, Universit� di Firenze (italiano, English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth.html�]

II. FLORENCE AND SPAIN/ FIRENZE E SPAGNA
Tavola Rotonda I: Beatus, Apocalypse, Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria , dott.ssa Angela Franco, Museo Arqeol�gico Nacional, Madrid (Spanish); Nhora Lucia Serrano, University of Wisconsin-Madison (English) || Tavola Rotonda II: Brunetto Latino, Il Libro di Montaperti e Il Tesoretto, dott. Renato Stopani, Firenze (italiano, English); prof.ssa Diana Modesto, University of Sydney, Australia (forthcoming) || I Laudari fiorentini, prof. Ursula Betka, University of Melbourne, Australia (English, italiano) || Appendici: The Codicology of the Las Cantigas de Santa Maria Banco Rari 20 Manuscript, Deirdre Jackson, Courtauld Institute, England (forthcoming) || Brunetto in the Tesoretto, Elisabetta Sayiner, University of Pennsylvania (English) || Visualizing Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto in Early Trecento Florence, prof.ssa Catherine Harding, University of Vancouver, Canada (English) || Julia Bolton Holloway, Diplomacy and Literature: Alfonso el Sabio's Influence on Brunetto Latino, 'Maestro di Dante Alighieri' (English) || Behind the Arras: Pier delle Vigne, Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth2.html�]

III. DANTE INTERTWINED/ DANTE INTRECCIATO
L'Aldil� celtico e la Commedia , prof.ssa M�ire Herbert, University College of Cork (English) || Dante e Oderisi: L'umilt� dell'arte, l'umilt� della parola, dott. Vittorio Montemaggi, Robinson College, University of Cambridge (italiano, English) || Il Libro della Scala, Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, e Immanuello Romano, L'Inferno e il Paradiso , dott. Giorgio Battistoni, Verona (italiano) [http://www.florin.ms/beth3.html�]

IV. WOMEN CONTEMPLATIVES/ LE DONNE CONTEMPLATIVE
Umilt� da Faenza, Sermones, e la Firenze, dott.ssa Adele Simonetti, S.I.S.M.E.L., Roma (italiano, English) || Margherita Porete, Lo Specchio delle anime semplici, prof.ssa Giovanna Fozzer, Firenze (italiano, English) || Brigida di Svezia, Le Rivelazioni e Firenze, prof. Tore Nyberg, Universit� di Odense, Danimarca (English) || Giuliana di Norwich, Rivelazioni, e Margery Kempe e il suo Libro , Juliana Dresvina, Universit� di Mosca, Russia (English) || Appendici: Brigida di Svezia, O.SS.S., e Chiara Gambacorta, O.P., prof.ssa Anne M. Roberts (English)|| A Paradiso Document in the Florentine Archives, Written at Vadstena, 1397, Birger Bergh, Daniela De Rosa, Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Monica Hedlund, Boyd Hill, Julia Bolton Holloway (English, italiano) || Ser Lapo Mazzei Writes to Messer Francesco Datini about Birgitta of Sweden, Iris Origo (English) || The Soul a City: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe of Lynn, Julia Bolton Holloway (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth4.html�]

V. THE GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT/ IL MANOSCRITTO GOTICO E RINASCIMENTALE
La Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, prof.ssa Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Firenze (italiano, English) || Tavola Rotonda III : Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor e il Tesoro, Dante, La Commedia : prof.ssa Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh ; prof.ssa Brigitte Roux, Universit� de Gen�ve (italiano, fran�ais, English); prof.ssa Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupr�, Universit� di Firenze (forthcoming) || Appendici: Female City Builders: Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias and Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cit� des dames, prof.ssa Christine McWebb, University of Alberta, Canada (English) || Le_Des Cas des Noble Hommes et Femmes_ de Bocace, prof.ssa C�cile Quentel Touche, Universit� de Rennes (fran�ais, English) ||Dante Alighieri e Christine de Pizan, prof.ssa Ester Zago, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. (English) [http://www.florin.ms/beth5.html�]

FTER JULIAN:
Santa Francesca Romana and the Tor de' Specchi || Trauma and Healing: Santa Francesca Romana* || Maiju Lehmijoki St Birgitta's Influence in Finland || St John of the Cross 'If You Would b e Perfect' * ||Julian of Norwich and the English Nuns in Exile Portal *|| Margaret Gascoigne/Bridget More Contemplating on Julian* || Dame Barbara Constable, O.S.B., and the Upholland Manuscript Julian's Showing Fragment * || Kevin Faulkner, Spiri tual and Literary Kinship between Dame Julian and Sir Thomas Browne || Kevin Faulkner, Prayer and Prophecy: Sir Thomas Browne's Spirituality|| An English Nun in Exile: 'Colections': Bibliotheque Mazarine I & II * *|| An English Nun in Exile: 'Colections': Bibliotheque Mazarine IIA * *|| An English Nun in Exile, IIB* *|| Dame Gertrude More, OSB Father Augustine's Way of Prayer** || Dame Catherine Gascoigne, OSB, Father Augustine Baker's Way of Prayer: Bibliotheque Mazarine III* *|| The Showing's Scribes as Julian's Editors || Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts and Their Contexts || William Blake and the Book of Job || Norwich's Quaker, Elizabeth Fry 'What Owest Thou Thy God? || Mrs Jarena Lee Journal: Giving an Account of her Call to Preach the Gospel

ULIAN IN OUR DAY:
|Martin Buber reads Julian of Norwich, 1909 || Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus using Julian of Norwich, Revelation of Divine Love, Westminster, 1920 * ||Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., Some Literary Influences on the _Revelations_of Julian of Norwich; 'Courtesy' and 'Homeliness' in the Revelations of Julian of Norwich || Don Divo Barsotti 'The Optimism of Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Essay on the Showing of Love' || The Lord's Prayer: Our Father, Julian of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein* || St Edith Stein. Two Dialogues || Fioretta Mazzei. Blue/Green Thoughts || Christopher Abbott Mary Heap in East Lancashire || Julian in Advent and Lent || Hazelnuts and Oliveleaves: Julian and the Trinity || Julian and the Healing of Wounds || Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art * || Folio, Manuscript, Paleography, Codicology || Teaching Ourselvesa|| Ocean of Darkness, Ocean of Light ||John Paul II Co-Patronesses of Europe: Saints Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), October 1, 1999 || Benedict XVI Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Women and the Church* || Julian's Day: Epistle to Godfriends || William Johnston, 'The Path from Hate to Love' *|| Julian of Norwich and Lectio Divina* || 'Whole Earth Catalogue' Handcrafts, Books/ *Booklets || Book Reviews || Bibliography || Vita

LINKS TO OTHER SITES ~ ~ ~ in Preface: Contemplating on Julian ~

Birgitta of Sweden and her Revelationes Website General/Contemplative/Scholar

Finnish Diptych, Bishop Hemming and St Birgitta

Welcome to St Birgitta's Pilgrimages ~~ ~

Birgitta of Sweden's Revelationes , Autograph Manuscript, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden

****his Website gives essays and materials concerning Birgitta of Sweden, mother of eight children, who travelled on pilgrimage to Trondheim, Compostela, going into exile in Rome and Jerusalem, who wrote a major book, the Revelationes , placed in the hands of Popes, Emperors, Cardinals, Bishops, Kings, Hermits, Anchoresses, Laypeople,and who influenced Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena. She is particularly the Prophet for the Jubilee.

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Saint Agnes and Saint Cecilia: Ambered in Eucharist || Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims || Jo Ann McNamara 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium' || Margaret of Jerusalem/Beverley and Thomas of Beverley/Froidmont, Her Brother, Her Biographer || Thomas de Froidmont/'Bernard of Clairvaux', Written for his Sister, The Golden Epistle, Amherst Manuscript || Guigo II Ladder of Four Degrees || BothBirgitta of Sweden andMargery Kempe were associated with clerics who readCardinal Jacques de Vitry writing on Marie d'Oignies Link~ || St Clare of Assisi. Privilege of Poverty I: Privilege, Testament and Blessing || St Clare of Assisi. Privilege of Poverty II: Regula Sanctae Clarae || A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within, Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Heslyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Saint Birgitta and Florence's Certosa || St Birgitta of Sweden Revelaciones Entire Latin Text. Using Diskettes Published by Swedish Scholars, based on their Critical Editions, and where lacking on the L�beck: Ghotan 1492 E_ditio Princeps_. || St Birgitta of Sweden: Her Relics || A Tower of Mirrors: Married Women Saints || St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: First Week English. Contemplative || St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: Second Week English. Contemplative || St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: Third Week English. Contemplative || James Hogg Cardinal Adam Easton's Letter to the Abbess of Vadstena English/Latin. Scholar || Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B. English. General/Scholar || Iris Origo Ser Lapo Mazzei writes to Messer Francesco Datini about Beata Brigida || Johannis Johannes Kalmarnensis. A Paradiso Document in the Florentine Archives, Written at Vadstena, 1397 . Scholar. Discussion by Birger Bergh, Daniela De Rosa, Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Monica Hedlund, Boyd Hill, Julia Bolton Holloway, Tore Nyberg and Bonnie Wheeler. English/Latin/italiano || Ann Roberts Beata Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa and Saint Birgitta of Sweden Scholar|| The Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love and its Contexts Website General/ Scholar/ Contemplative || Julian of Norwich The Brigittine Syon Abbey/Westminster Cathedral Showing of Love Manuscript || The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome English. General/ Scholar || The Soul a City: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe English and Middle English. Scholar/ Contemplative/General || Syon Abbey: The XV Os of the Crucifixion Scholar || Nicholas Rogers About the Syon Abbey: The XV Os of the Crucifixion Scholar ||Santa Francesca Romana and the Tor de' Specchi General/Scholar || Trauma and Healing: San Francesca Romana || Maiju Lehmijoki St Birgitta of Sweden's Influence in Finland English. General/ Scholar || Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript Contemplative prayers in a Julian-related manuscript from Syon Abbey now at Lambeth Palace. Scholar/ Contemplative || Julian of Norwich's Showing in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts and their Contexts On Brigittine Syon Abbey Manuscripts of Julian of Norwich. General/ Scholar || Dame Catherine Gascoigne, O.S.B., Father Augustine Baker's Way of Prayer || Folio, Manuscript, Paleography, Codicology On Brigittine manuscripts, etc. || His Holiness John Paul II Co-Patronesses of Europe: Saints Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), October 1, 1999 || Benedict XVI Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Women and the Church* ||Bibliography|| Book Reviews

Women in the Middle Ages Website General/Scholar

Welcome to Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, an e-book Contents (click here for larger type)

Table of Contents || Introduction: The Body and the Book || Section I. The Distaff and the Pen || Chapter 1: Woman and the Distaff || I. Noe's Wife: Type of Eve and Wakefield Spinner, Laura F. Hodges || Appendix: The Recalcitrant Wife in the Ramsey Abbey Psalter, Adelaide Bennett || II. The Thread of Life in the Hand of the Virgin, Gail McMurray Gibson || Chapter 2: Woman and the Pen || I. Crosses and Boxes: Latin and Vernacular, Julia Bolton Holloway || II. St. Birgitta: The Disjunction between Women and Ecclesiastical Power, Joan Bechtold || III. Christine de Pizan: A Feminist Way to Learning, Ester Zago || Section II. Sexuality and Textuality || Chapter 3. Sexuality and Textuality I. The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome's Attitude to Women, Jane Barr || II. The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law, Elizabeth M. Makowski || Section III. On Pilgrimage and in the Cloister || Chapter 4: Hermits and Pilgrims || I. An Anchorhold of Her Own: Female Anchoritic Literature in Thirteenth-Century England, Elizabeth Robertson || II. Englishwomen as Pilgrims to Jerusalem: Isolda Parewastell, 1365, Anthony Luttrell || III. Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun, Julia Bolton Holloway || Chapter 5: Holy Disobedience ||
I. Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone, Pamela Loos-Noji || II. Is She Dancing? A New Reading of Lucas van Leyden's Dance of the Magdalene of 1519, Liesel Nolan || III. Scholastica and Benedict: A Picnic, A Paradigm, Sister Jane Morrissey, SSJ || Appendix:Saints Benedict and Scholastica: The Liturgical Music, Father Gerard Farrell, OSB || Bibliography ||Contributors

The Mirror of Saints Website General/Contemplative
Welcome to Santa Francesca Romana's Tower of Mirrors ~ ~ ~

****his Website gives lives given to the love of God and our neighbours down two millenia. Mirroring them we mirror the Gospel. And in its title we mirror the name of Santa Francesca Romana 's monastery, the beautiful Tor de' Specchi, in Rome, where time stops and Christ's charity lives.

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Preface: Contemplating on Julian || Saint Agnes and Saint Cecilia: Ambered in Eucharist || Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims || Paula, Birgitta, Julian: Contemplating upon Hebrew ||Jo Ann McNamara, 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium' ||Augustine, Confessions|| Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Benedict, Gregory, and Dante: Julian's Mystical Philosophers*|| Gregory the Great, Dialogues II, Life of St Benedict ||Sister Jane Morrissey, S.S.J St Scholastica and St Benedict || Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' *|| The Life of St Gregory the Great by a Monk or Nun at Whitby || Alexandra H. Olsen. Saint Pega, Saint Guthlac, Hermits || Alexandra H. Olsen. Saint Pega and Saint Guthlac in the South English Legendary || Alexandra H. Olsen, Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth: Women Associated with Boniface || Pilgrimage to Clare and Francis || St Clare of Assisi: Privilege of Poverty || St Clare of Assisi, Rule || La Beata Umilta': Contemplating on Holy Humility *|| A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Helsyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Godfriends: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechtild of Magdebourg, Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, Jan van Ruusbroec *||The Mystics Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome *|| Beata Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa || The St Birgitta of Sweden Website ||Birgitta of Sweden: Her Relics ||James Hogg, Cardinal Adam Easton's Letter to the Abbess of Vadstena || Johannis Johannes Kalmarnensis. A Paradiso Document in the Florentine Archives Written at Vadstena, 1397 . Discussion by Birger Bergh, Daniela De Rosa, Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Monica Hedlund, Boyd Hill, Julia Bolton Holloway, Tore Nyberg and Bonnie Wheeler. || The Julian of Norwich Website || Impossible Saint: Santa Rita of Cascia *||Santa Francesca Romana and the Tor de' Specchi *|| Michel Perrin. St Nicholas of Flue, Friend of God. In Progress || John of the Cross, If You Would be Perfect *|| Frances Alexander on St Zita of Lucca || Norwich's Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, 'What Owest Thou Thy God?' ||Edith Stein, Two Dialogues (Augustine and Ambrose, Queen Esther) || Lord's Prayer as Discussed by Women Theologians (Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein) *|| Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Link~|| Peace Pilgrim of America Link ~|| Mother Teresa of Calcutta || Fioretta Mazzei of Florence || Fioretta Mazzei. Blue Green Thoughts || John Paul II,Patronesses of Europe: Saint Bridget of Sweden, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross||Giubileo/ Jubilee 2000 || Benedict XVI Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Women and the Church* || Bibliography || Book Reviews

Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women An E-Book. General

Christ washing Peter's feet, in memory of Magdalen's washing Christ's feet

Welcome to the Peoples of the Book

his Website and E-Book is in Progress. It once was to be a book about the Book. The first part, on women in the Hebrew Scriptures, would also teach the Hebrew alphabet. The second, on women in the Greek Testament, would similarly teach the Greek alphabet (pirated from the Hebrew!). Then it would have concentrated on such women as Helena , mother of Constantine, studying the Bible and the Holy Land's archeology, on Egeria travelling Bible in hand and writing home to her nuns in Spain about her observations, on Paula and Eustochium going from Rome to Bethlehem, studying Hebrew, already having Greek and Latin, and funding and helping Jerome translate the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into the Vulgate Latin that then also women and children could understand. It would have discussed Boniface's circle of English nuns on mission in Germany creating Bibles on purple vellum with golden letters. It would have discussed Julian 's and Birgitta 's close knowledge of the Bible, both likely having advisers who knew Hebrew, Adam Easton who taught it at Oxford,Magister Mathias who studied it in Paris. It would have continued through such women as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Simone Weil and Edith Stein, noting, too, St Therese of Lisieux's desire that priests study the Bible in the sacred and original tongues.

In Florence, in Tuscany, we are surrounded with treasures created by women responding in lectio divina to the Bible, in Arezzo, Egeria 's unique manuscript, perhaps prompting Piero della Francesca's cycle of paintings of Helena's Finding of the True Cross; in Lucca, Hildegard of Bingen's superb and final manuscript; in Florence, Marguerite Porete's_Mirror of Simple Souls_, translated into Italian, a book for which she was condemned to be burned in Paris by 21 Doctors of Theology, 1310, but which continued to be copied and translated as a samizdat sacred book, creating the Friends of God of Meister Eckhart, John Tauler,Henry Suso, Jan Van Ruusbroec; in Siena, St Catherine of Siena's disciple, Cristofano Di Gano, having translated into Italian, St Birgitta of Sweden's Revelationes. And this is the city in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote Aurora Leigh, resonating with the Bible, concluding with the Apocalypse.

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Preface: Contemplating on Julian || The City and the Book, International Congress, May 30, 31, June 1, 2001, Florence. Proceedings || Our Bishop and the Gospel || Miriam and Aaron: Women in the Hebrew Scriptures. In Progress || John and Mary: Women in the Greek Testament|| Divo Barsotti Women in the Gospel ||Sacrament and Gospel: Water, Wine, Bread and Oil || Royal Priesthood: Theory into Praxis || Folio, Manuscript: Paleography, Codicology || Jo Ann McNamara, 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium ' || Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims || Paula, Birgitta, Julian: Contemplating upon Hebrew *|| Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' *|| Maria Makepeace, The Codex Amiatinus || Alexandra H. Olsen, Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth: Women Associated with Boniface || Margaret of Jerusalem and Thomas of Beverley ||The Godfriends' Cloister Website || A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Helsyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Godfriends: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechtild of Magdebourg, Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, Jan van Ruusbroec *||The Mystics Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome *|| The St Birgitta of Sweden Website || The Julian of Norwich Website || The Computer of Wisdom Website ||Archbishop Arundel, Constitutions, 1408 || .Elizabeth Fry, Norwich's Quaker, 'What Owest Thou Thy God? '|| Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems|| Mother Agnes Mason, C.H.F., Foundress || Edith Stein, Two Dialogues (Augustine and Ambrose, Queen Esther) || Don Divo Barsotti, Ascolta, O Figlio/ Hear, O My Child || Teaching Ourselves || Giubileo/ Jubilee 2000 || Islam and Judaism || Women and Islam || Bibliography || Book Reviews

See also E-Book, Conference Proceedings, for Scholars:

THE CITY AND THE BOOK/ LA CITTA' E IL LIBRO I
PROCEEDINGS, THE ALPHABET AND THE BIBLE/ GLI ATTI, L'ALFABETO E LA BIBBIA
FLORENCE, MAY/JUNE 2001/ FIRENZE, MAGGIO/GIUGNO 2001

I. ALPHABET AND BIBLE/ L'ALFABETO E LA BIBBIA : Introduction, prof.ssa Julia Bolton Holloway, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Fioretta Mazzei and the City, Giannozzo Pucci (English, italiano) || Fioretta Mazzei and the Book, dott.ssa Giovanna Carocci (italiano, English) ||The CODEX AMIATINUS: Initiatives of the Laurentian Library, dott.ssa Franca Arduini, Laurentian Library (italiano, English) || The Alphabet: Origins and Diffusion, prof.ssa Maria Giulia Amadasi, Universit� 'La Sapienza' di Roma (italiano, English) || Some Observations on the Composition of the Bible, Osservazioni sulla composizione della Bibbia, prof.ssa Ida Zatelli, Universit� di Firenze (italiano, English) || The Hebrew Bible in the First Millennium, prof. Giuliano Tamani, Universit� Ca' Foscari, Venice (italiano, English) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph.html�]

II. THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE/ LA BIBBIA CRISTIANA : The CODEX SINAITICUS and the CODEX ALEXANDRINUS: A Tale of Four Cities, Dr Scot McKendrick, The British Library (unavailable/non disponibile) || Jerome and His Learned Lady Disciples, prof. Claudio Moreschini, Universit� di Pisa (italiano, English) || Bishop Wulfila and the CODEX ARGENTEUS, Professor James Marchand, University of Illinois (English, italiano) || Cassiodorus, dott.ssa Luciana Cuppo Csaki, Societas internationalis pro Vivario (italiano, English) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph2.html�]

III. IRISH PSALTERS AND BIBLES/ SALTERI E BIBBIE IRLANDESI :Irish Psalters and Bibles, The CATHACH, THE BOOK OF KELLS, The Manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan, Trinity College Library, Dublin (English, italiano) || Irish Psalters and Bibles, The CATHACH, THE BOOK OF KELLS, The Texts, Professor Martin McNamara, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (English) || The Irish peregrini, Professor Maire Herbert, University of Cork (English, italiano) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph3.html�]

IV. THE BIBLE IN ENGLAND AND ICELAND/ LA BIBBIA IN INGHILTERRA E ISLANDA :The CODEX AMIATINUS, prof.ssa Lucia Castaldi, S.I.S.M.E.L., Florence (italiano, English) || The Celtic and Scandinavian Loan Words in the LINDISFARNE Glosses, David Moreno, University of Moraga (English, italiano) || The LICHFIELD GOSPELS, Canon Tony Barnard, Lichfield Cathedral (English, italiano) || The Dream of the Rood, Ruthwell/Vercelli, prof. Domenico Pezzini (English, italiano) || Life of St Gregory, A.D. 713, Whitby/ St Gall, Julia Bolton Holloway, Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei (English, italiano) || Fondness for Stories: The Bible in Iceland, Professor Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik (English, italiano) || [http://www.florin.ms/aleph4.html�]

V. THE BIBLE IN RUSSIA, SPAIN, ITALY/ LA BIBBIA IN RUSSIA, SPAGNA E ITALIA :The Gospels in the Byzantine-Slavic World, prof. Marcello Garzaniti, University of Florence (italiano, English) || Alphabet and Bible in Russia, Juliana Dresvina, University of Moscow (English, italiano) || The Apostles' Diaspora and the Relation of the Beatus with Islam, dott.ssa Angela Franco, Museo Arqeol�gico Nacional, Madrid (Spanish) || Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: Multiple Texts and Multiple Communities, Professor Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University (English, italiano) || Monastic lectio divina, Padre priore Luigi De Candido, O.S.M., Monte Senario (italiano, English) [http://www.florin.ms/aleph5.html�]

Benedictinism Website General/Contemplative/Scholar

Peregrini
Liturgical Drama, Officium Peregrinorum

enedict's Blessing

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Saint Benedict The Rule I, II, III In Latin || Saint Gregory the Great Dialogues II, on Saint Benedict || Sister Jane Morrissey, S.S.J. Saint Gregory on Saint Scholastica || St Columba's Rule || The Cloister Website|| Its Scriptorium Website || Caedmon and Hilda The Dream of the Rood: The Earliest English Poem || A Monk or Nun at Whitby The Earliest Life of St Gregory || Maria Makepeace The Codex Amiatinus: A Northumbrian Manuscript in a Florentine Library|| Alexandra H. Olsen Saint Lioba and Saint Boniface|| Alexandra H. Olsen Saint Pega and Saint Guthlac, Hermits || Alexandra H. Olsen Saint Pega and Saint Guthlac in the South-East English Legendary || Terence through Time, Terence of Africa's Comedies preserved in Benedictine monasteries influencing further dramas including those of Hrotswitha of Gandesheim Abraham and Mary and Pafnutius and Thais, and the Orleans 201 Liturgical Dramas, Resuscitatio Lazari and Officium Peregrinorum ||Hildegard von Bingen: The Monastic Context || Sister Victorine Fenton, O.S.B. 'Columba aspexit'; Hildegard's Sequence in Honour of St Maximus|| Cell of Self-Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby, Margaret Heslyngton, Emma Stapelton, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Saint Umilt� of Faenza: Contemplating on Holy Humility || John Whiterig, O.S.B., Hermit of Farne, Contemplating the Crucifixion|| Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton O.S.B.: Norwich Cathedral, 1 December 1998 || Textual Communities and Gendered Audiences: Cloud of Unknowing and Showing of Love || Julian of Norwich Showing of Love, The Westminster Cathedral Manuscript|| The Julian of Norwich Website || Dom Finbar Boyle, OSB. Julian's Raindrops from Eaves || The_Showing_'s Scribes as Julian's Editors || Julian in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts of the Showing and Their Contexts || An English Nun in Exile 'Colections' || Dames Margaret Gascoigne/Bridget More, OSB. Contemplating on Julian|| Dame Barbara Constable, O.S.B. The Upholland Manuscript ||Dame Gertrude More OSB. On Dom Augustine Baker, O.S.B., Way of Prayer || Dame Catherine Gascoigne O.S.B. On Dom Augustine Baker, O.S.B., Way of Prayer || Mother Justina OSB || Don Divo Barsotti Ascolta, O Figlio: Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict || Fr Bernardo Francesco M. Gianni, O.S.B. Oliv. 'Si reverat Deum quaerit': Spiritualit� benedettina || Teaching Ourselves: A Monastic Studies Programme in Florence

Abraham and Mary and Pafnutius and Thais

The Cloister Website General/Contemplative/Scholar

Detail of Ideal Monastery Church and Cloister in a St Gall Manuscript, its cloister to the side of the abbey church enclosing a garden, symbolizing Paradise .

****nter Your Global Hermitage ~ ~ ~

****ollowing the medieval contemplative Friends of God , we essay to build a Utopian monastery, that never was, is or will be, yet always is. Our base is one book-lined room above Florence, without heat, on foot, but with a computer and prayer, a global hermitage. In this Website, still in progress, we present Father Founders, Mother Foundresses, through time; present their Opus Dei, the work of prayer and praise to God, their 'School of Prayer'; give their Rules, their Red/Blue Prints; then links to monastic orders and monastic writings, as foundation stones for our own global communing. We also open our cloister, our hermitage, and its learning to you.

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Father Founders, Mother Foundresses: Augustine, Confessions Link ~|| Gregory the Great, Dialogues II, Life of St Benedict || Sister Jane Morrissey, S.S.J. St Scholastica and St Benedict ||St Benedict's Blessing: Website on Relation of Benedictine Monasticism to Julian of Norwich || The Dream of the Rood: Hilda and Caedmon *|| Earliest Life of St Gregory *|| Alexandra H. Olsen, Saint Pega, Saint Guthlac, Hermits ||Alexandra H. Olsen, Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth: Women Associated with Boniface || St Clare. Privilege of Poverty I: Privilege, Testament and Blessing || Pilgrimage to Clare and Francis || Heloise of the Holy Paraclete. In Progress || St Umilta` of the Vallombrosan Benedictines *|| Godfriends: The Continental Medieval Mystics *|| The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Chaira Gambacorta, Francesca Romana *|| St Birgitta of Sweden and Florence's Certosa ||St Birgitta of Sweden of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour Website ||St Francesca Romana of the Order of Oblates || Trauma and Healing: Santa Francesca Romana * || St Teresa of Avila of the Discalced Carmelites, Mother Agnes Mason, C.H.F. || 'Colections', An English Nun in Exile *|| Norwich's Quaker Elizabeth Fry, 'What Owest Thou Thy God?' ||Mother Agnes Mason of the Community of the Holy Family *|| Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker || Mother Teresa of Calcutta ||Fioretta Mazzei and Florence ||Don Divo Barsotti, || Godfriends' Blue/Red/Print||Teaching Ourselves ||Jubilee/Giubileo|| Bibliography|| Book Reviews

Their Rules: Regula Sancti Benedicti || Don Divo Barsotti, Hear, O My Child: Commentary on Benedict's Rule || St Columba's Rule || St Clare of Assisi, Privilege of Poverty II: Regula Sanctae Clarae || St Birgitta of Sweden's Regula Salvatoris || St John of the Cross, If You Would Be Perfect *|| Agnes Mason, C.H.F. Rule for the Community of the Holy Family || || Padre Fr. Alberto E. Justo, O.P. Regla para Eremitas/Rule for Hermits || Jim H. Godfriends' AA Traditions/Rule

Their Opus Dei/ On Prayer: Carmina Gadelica Link ~|| Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' *|| Guigo II,The Ladder of Contemplation || Margaret of Jerusalem and Thomas of Beverley ||Thomas de Froidmont/'Bernard of Clairvaux', The Amherst Golden Epistle ||A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Helsyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || St Birgitta, Sermo Angelicus I , Sermo Angelicus II , Sermo Angelicus III || Jan van Ruusbroec, Sparkling Stone *|| Henry Suso, Computer of Wisdom *|| John Whiterig, O.S.B., Hermit of Farne, Contemplation on the Crucifixion || Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love: The Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript*|| A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle *|| Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript || The Crucifix: Jerome, St Francis, Fra Angelico, Julian || The Soul a City: Margery and Julian* ||Dame Catherine Gascoigne, O.S.B., Father Augustine Baker's Way of Prayer *||Heavenwindow: A Web of Prayer ||Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art *|| Suor Chiara figlio dell'uomo Ecco, sto alla porta e busso/ Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock *|| 'When Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name '|| Julian in Advent and Lent || Comunita` dei figli di Dio: Four Prayers || Heavenwindow: Prayers for Contemplation || The Lord's Prayer, 'Our Father': Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein *|| The Church's Liturgy Link~|| La Santa Messa: The Mass in Italian *||Il Rosario fiorentino/The Florentine Rosary ||

Links to Other Sites ~ ~ ~

The Computer of Wisdom, A Website on Textual Communities General/Contemplative/Scholar

Litany of Saints

Welcome to its Scriptorium ~ ~ ~

****his Website seeks to unlock the wisdom of books, written by women as well as men, about the textual, as well as monastic, communities created throughout time by men and women in shared collaboration with each other, based on the Bible, about how to read a manuscript with paleography and codicology, and about how to use the great European libraries, questing in them the contemplative treasures of the past for the future, seeing computers as but a stage in technology that began with the invention of the alphabet in creating textual communities. You can covenant to participate in tutorials, for instance on Dante's Florence, on Julian's Norwich, on Paleography and Editing of Manuscripts, you can attend our international congresses in Florence on The City and the Book, La Citta` e il Libro, held 2001, 2002, 2003, and perhaps 2007/8, these conducted not as in a competitive university, but as in a contemplative monastery, open to lay and clergy, women and men, old and young, poor and rich. Indicate what you would like to learn. A lending library by post can be made available for you. We borrow our title from Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae. We borrow, too, the memorable beauty and technology of medieval manuscripts for the colour and form of our web pages, their 'hierarchy of scripts', and their alternatingreds and blues, the pulsating colours of an umbilical cord, linking us backwards through time to Creation by God, books being likewise living and filled with the Spirit, though these colours were lost with the black and white of the mechanical printing press.

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Folio, Manuscript: Paelography, Codicology ~ || Book-Binding/The Codex Amiatinus Facsimile * || Latin with Laughter; Terence through Time Website || The Mirror of Saints Website || Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims ||Paula, Birgitta, Julian: Contemplating upon Hebrew || Jo Ann McNamara, 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium' ||Augustine, Confessions Link ~|| Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Benedict, Gregory, and Dante: Julian's Mystical Philosophers*|| Gregory the Great, Dialogues II, Life of St Benedict || St Benedict's Blessing: Website on Relation of Benedictine Monasticism to Julian of Norwich || Hilda and Caedmon: 'The Dream of the Rood' *|| Maria Makepeace,The Laurentian Library Codex Amiatinus || The Most Ancient Life of St Gregory the Great by a Monk or Nun at Whitby*|| Alexandra H. Olsen, Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth: Women Associated with Boniface || Margaret of Jerusalem and Thomas of Beverley, Her Brother, Her Biographer ||Thomas of Froidmont, Golden Epistle, Amherst Manuscript* || La Beata Umilta': Contemplating on Holy Humility *|| Dante and the 1300 Jubilee ~|| A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Helsyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Godfriends: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechtild of Magdebourg, Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, Jan van Ruusbroec * || The Mystics Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome * || Birgitta of Sweden: Her Relics ||Jan van Ruusbroec, The Sparkling Stone * || Henry Suso, Computer of Wisdom * || Westminster Cathedral Manuscript || Julian's Showing in a Nutshell: Her Manuscripts and their Cultural Contexts || Archbishop Arundel, Constitutions, 1408|| Amherst Manuscript Project ||A Julian Manuscript in Norwich Castle? || Julian at Prayer: A Lambeth Palace Manuscript || Gascoigne Manuscript Julian Fragment *|| Upholland Manuscript Julian Fragment *|| The Showing's Scribes as Julian's Editors ||John of the Cross, If You Would be Perfect * ||Biblioth�que Mazarine Manuscript: Colections by an English Nun in Exile I*|| Biblioth�que Mazarine Manuscript: Fenelon's Spiritual LettersII* ||Biblioth�que Mazarine Manuscript: Dame Catharine Gascoigne's Defense of Dom Augustine Baker III * || Norwich's Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, 'What Owest Thou Thy God? '|| Francesca Alexander, St Zita of Lucca || Mother Agnes Mason, Founder, Community of the Holy Family * || Edith Stein, Two Dialogues || Lord's Prayer as Discussed by Women Theologians * || Teaching Ourselves|| Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei ||Augusto Fiorani, Calligraphy Workshop||Bibliography|| Book Reviews

Links to Other Sites ~ ~ ~

. Terence through Time An E-Book Website General/Scholar

Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-044324-X
Welcome to Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time

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I. Plays
Introduction and Manuscripts|| Terence (Publius Terentius Afer, 186-159 B.C.) Heautontimorumenos || Eunuchus || Hrotswitha of Gandesheim, 935-973 A.D., Abraham and Mary || Pafnutius and Thais || Liturgical Drama, Manuscript Orl�ans 201 Resuscitatio Lazari XIIIth Century || Manuscript Orl�ans 201 Officium Peregrinorum XIIIth Century || Corpus Christi Drama, Wakefield Master, Second Shepherd's Play, XVth Century Middle English. Link to Biblioteca Augustana

II. Essays on the Plays:
Tim Taylor, Fathers, Sons, Duty and Deceit, Terence and Shakespeare, Part I, Terence|| Slaves and Princes: Terence through Time||Alecia Carole Dantico, Desert Flower: Thais through Time|| Patricia McIntyre, Comedy of Prayer: The Redemption of Terence through Christian Appropriation|| The Chichester Bethany Panels and the Plays of Terence|| Tsai Shu-Hui, Terence and Wang Shih.Fu: Dramatists of Humanity|| Richard J. Schoeck, Terence and Other Roman Africans||Tim Taylor, Fathers, Sons, Duty and Deceit, Terence and Shakespeare, Part II, Shakespear|| Terence through Time: 1985 Conference and Radio Broadcast|| Terence's_Comedies_ and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Ellesmere Manuscript and the Luttrell Psalter|| World Literature: Global Tapestry

Catalogue, Bibliographies, Reviews General/Scholar

Welcome to the Global Hermitage's Library (Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei) ~ ~ ~

Catalogue:

ALEPH=Bible Commentaries/ Hebraism, Islam/ Alphabet, Babylonian/Egyptian, Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, Bible, Early Christianity, Desert Fathers, Greek/Russian Orthodoxy, Latin Christianity, Celtic Christianity, Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Hagiography, Medieval, Renaissance Bible, Women in Christianity, Church Today, Modern Contemplative Theology, Modern Hagiography/Biography, Comparative Religions
BETH=Monastic Orders: Benedictine, Brigittine, Carmelite, Carthusian, Dominican, Franciscan/ Clarissan, Newer Orders, Modern Communities, Anglican, Modern Contemplative Theology, Liturgy/Catechism/Magisterium || Medieval Studies, Women in Middle Ages, Beguine, Anchoress, Hermit, Julian of Norwich, Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, Pilgrimage, Lollard, Quaker, etc.
**GIMEL**=Classics, Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Modern Languages: French, Provencal, Italian, || Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dictionaries || Grammars, Handbooks on Style || Florence's Political Theologians: Don Giulio Facibeni, Giorgio La Pira, Fioretta Mazzei, Pietro Parigi, Don Lorenzo Milani, Giannozzo Pucci, Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana || MLA International Bibliography
**DALETH**=Icelandic and British Literature: Icelandic, Old English, Welsh, Arthurian, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Drama, Chaucer, Langland, Pearl, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Blake, Memoirs and Letters, Short Story, Novel
**HE**=Twentieth Century Literature, Poetry, Trauma, Women, Australian, Black, Native American, Rom, Holocaust || Nineteenth Century Literature, keyed to tombs in "English" Cemetery, Florence [shelved in this order, though catalogued chronologically], Criticism
**VAU**=Firenze, Music, Glorney Bolton, Eileen Bolton, Julia Bolton Holloway publications
**ZAYIN**=Toscana, Italy, Travel, Art History, Codicology/ Paleography, Handcrafts, Children
**KHETH**=Electronic and Microform Library, e-books on-line, CDs in library, microfilms of medieval and nineteenth-century manuscripts, slides, etc.
**TET**=Offprints, Journals, etc
**TAU**=English Cemetery

Bibliographies:
Bibliography on Julian of Norwich|| Abelard and Heloise || Angela of Foligno || St Augustine of Hippo || Ancrene Wisse, Ancrene Riwle || Related Katherine Group || Augustine Baker, O.S.B. || English Benedictine Nuns in Exile || St Birgitta of Sweden || St Catherine of Siena ||Cloud of Unknowing, etc . || Adam Easton, O.S.B. || Friends of God (Meister Eckhart, Jan van Ruusbroec, Henry Suso, John Tauler)|| Helfta Mystics || Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. || Walter Hilton || Julian of Norwich, Editions, Translations || Book of Margery Kempe || Rabbi David Kimhi || Marguerite Porete || Pseudo-Dionysius|| Richard Rolle || Syon Abbey || John Wyclif
Equally in God's Image Bibliography ||
Oliveleaf Bibliography ||

Book Reviews: Julian of Norwich and Related Materials ||Oliveleaf Book Reviews

Books to Reviews and Gifts of Books in Related Areas Welcomed. We have a library, the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei , in the 'English' Cemetery, Piazzale Donatello, Florence, to replace our lost library of Holmhurst St Mary. Its holdings are particularly strong in Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri, Julian of Norwich, Birgitta of Sweden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Scriptural Study, Paleography and Codicology. We seek further books on Florence, the Anglo-Florentines, the Oxford Movement, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Trollopes, Hiram Powers, etc.

A Web of Prayer General/Contemplative

Sussex font with Celtic/Scandinavian interlace, design also found on medieval Swedish baptismal fonts, used for embroidery on a chasuble.

Welcome to Heavenwindow : A Web of Prayer General/Contemplative

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PRAYER

Heavenwindow: A Gathering of Prayers || Four Prayers: Shema, Lord's Prayer, St Francis' Lauds of God, Christ's Beatitudes|| Four Prayers in Norwegian and Swedish || Carmina Gadelica Website of Celtic Binding Prayers || 'Dream of the Rood': Earliest Prayer in English || Julian of Norwich on Prayer *|| St Birgitta of Sweden Four Prayers Latin || Advent Great O Antiphons || XV O's of the Passion || Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript ||The Rosary || The Mass in Italian || The Pope's Pardon

CONTEMPLATION

Preface: Contemplating on Julian || Guigo II The Ladder of Contemplation || Thomas de Froidmont/'Bernard of Clairvaux'The Amherst Golden Epistle || A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Helsyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || St Birgitta Sermo Angelicus I, II , III || Contemplating on Hebrew || Jan van Ruusbroec Sparkling Stone || Henry Suso Computer of Wisdom || John Whiterig, O.S.B., Hermit of Farne, Contemplation on the Crucifixion || Julian of Norwich Showing of Love: Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript || A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle || Julian on Prayer* || The Soul a City: Margery and Julian || Brother Lawrence, O.Carm. The Practice of the Presence of God ||Suor Chiara figlio dell'uomoEcco, sto alla porta e busso/ Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock || Julian in Advent and Lent || Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art ||The Crucifix: Jerome, St Francis, Fra Angelico, Julian || Comunita` dei figli di Dio Four Prayers || 'When Two or Three Are Gathered in My Name ' Bergen, Norway; G�teborg, Sweden || The Lord's Prayer, 'Our Father': Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein || The Church's Liturgy || Fioretta Mazzei Blue-Green ||On the Via Crucis/XV Stations of the Cross || Padre Alberto Justo, O.P. Rule for a Hermit || Jubilee/Giubileo || Kadosh, Sanctus, Santo, Holy

. The Oliveleaf Website General

Olive leaves, Kenyan olivewood
bowl, William Morris print

Welcome to the Olive Grove ~ ~ ~

****his Oliveleaf Website is concerned with healing of trauma to soul, mind and body. It is, as it were, our virtual monastery's dispensary. Once, at Casamaris Abbey, I saw the monks in the dispensary giving medicine to the contadini, sometimes pennicillin; once, where a man had a sore needing to be dressed, applying to it a lotion from a bottle with the gentleness of a feather. Suddenly, I understood Dante's angels in the Purgatorio, cancelling the seven sins inscribed on his brow with a sword blade, by means of a feather from their wings, a manuscript quill reversed, and in what was standard medieval medical practice.

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Preface: Contemplating on Julian || Oliveleaf Chronicle || How to Make Cradles and Libraries|| Child/Mother|| Hands, Hearts, Centaurs, Salmon || M�os, Cora��es, Centauros, Salm�o In Portuguese || Fioretta Mazzei and Florence's 1984 Declaration of the Rights of the Child English/italiano || Feminist Gandhia|| Oceans of Darkness, Oceans of Light || Souls and Heals, Soles and Heels: Understanding Abuse ||A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within: Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Heslyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton || Julian and the Healing of Wounds || The Sabbath a Bride: Sexuality and Christianity *|| David and Solomon: Abuse and Clergy || Cruelty and Mercy: Medieval Models for Modern Times|| Hazelnuts and Oliveleaves: Julian and the Trinity || Impossible Saint: Santa Rita of Cascia ||William Blake and the Book of Job || World Literature: Global Tapestry || Jim H. AA's Traditions for Godfriends || Aleph/Alpha: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Deaf || Deaf/ Death || Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven|| Divo Barsotti, Perche` il male/Why Evil? || Hopi Message for Humanity || Chief Dan George, My Heart Soars || Chefe Dan George In Portuguese || Mother Teresa of Calcutta || Fioretta Mazzei Blue-Green Thoughts * || Fioretta Mazzei and Florencea|| Giorgio La Pira e Fioretta Mazzei* ||Rose Cordova Henry Cornfield/ Enrique Milpaz || Hazel Oddy Martha's Supplication || Rose Lloyds An English Rose, Part I|| Rose Lloyds An English Rose, Part II || Christopher Abbott Mary Heap in East Lancashire || Anne Lastman Broken Branches || Jonathan Luke Holloway Home Birth Can Be An Option || The Joy of the Bicycle|| Gypsies and Florence || Hedera's Family|| Tangled Tale: Journal Gleanings || Teaching Ourselves || Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women Website || Giubileo/Jubilee 2000 || Holy, Santo, Sanctus, Kadosh || Salvatore Jacobelli Un Paese come Scuola: Il gioco educativo/A Country a School: Learning Games English/italiano || New Mexico and Iceland: Thoughts on 'English Only' || Maria Margheri Manetti, Il Punto Antico/Drawn Thread Work|| Oliveleaves for Nairobi and Omagh|| New-Born: How to Raise a Child || Poems Pennyeach || Death Valley Incident* || Halbert Harold Holloway II, The Woman, the Sun, the Flowers and the Courage* || Family Album* || Weblog || Sheri Liao Xiaoyi, Beijing's Global Village* ||Iceland and Ecology *

How to Do It Web Essays: Weaving Websites*, How to Run a Library, How to Build Bookshelves and Cradles, Punto Antico

Welcome to to the World Wide Web~ ~ ~

Hans Memling, John Writing the Apocalypse,
St John's Hospital, Bruges, Belgium

Godfriends' Discussion List

****n the Middle Ages a group of men and women networked across Europe and wrote books for the contemplative life. They were called the 'Friends of God'. English grammar allows us to place God first, hence 'Godfriends'. We began in a theological library in Sussex, sensing that with the love of God and neighbour there were no boundaries between us; then, going into exile and into one room, filled with computer, books, blessed olive leaves, an anchorhold that is monastery, scriptorium, library and dispensary all in one, we re-established a similar network, on the Web and for the World. We are now in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and America. We are ecumenical. We are an anchorhold amidst the laity and in the world. We welcome you on our Godfriends' Discussion List.

When Margery Kempe came from Lynn to visit Julian of Norwich in her anchorhold, they discoursed on the City in the Soul, and how it is through the Soul and Spirit that the mind and the body find healing, wholeness, peace. Both Julian and Margery wrote books, soul cities, their Logotherapy, speaking from their past through our present to your future. Cain, the first murderer, built the first city, in exile from God, but Abel was a pilgrim and built none, seeking God only. This Umilta Website is a such an Interior Castle, a cyber community, an internet anchorhold, beyond time and death. It gathers together saints and sinners at a heavenly banquet. It is for you.

Welcome to Teaching Ourselves, Contemplative Learning on the Web; You can covenant to study, for instance Dante's Florence,Julian's Norwich, not as in a competitive university, but as in a contemplative monastery, open to all, lay and clergy, women and men, old and young, poor and rich, using this Umilta webspace. A Lending Library can be shared with you. This Library and Study Centre from 1 August 2000 is housed in the Gatehouse, Piazzale Donatello, Florence. In May 2001, September 2002, June 2004 (and perhaps 2007/8), we held International Congresses in Florence on The City and the Book to which you are invited. See The City and the Book, Teaching Ourselves, A Country a School, and 'Thunders of White Silence' .
Welcome to the Vita for Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family, Director of the Julian Project, Co-Facilitator of Teaching Ourselves

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