INDEX: GODFRIENDS' WEBSITES ON JULIAN OF NORWICH, HER 'SHOWING OF LOVE' AND ITS CONTEXTS

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 .

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.

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, Università 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 Arqeològico 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'Aldilà celtico e la Commedia , prof.ssa Màire Herbert, University College of Cork (English) || Dante e Oderisi: L'umiltà dell'arte, l'umiltà 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
Umiltà 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, Università di Odense, Danimarca (English) || Giuliana di Norwich, Rivelazioni, e Margery Kempe e il suo Libro , Juliana Dresvina, Università 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, Université de Genève (italiano, français, English); prof.ssa Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré, Università di Firenze (forthcoming) || Appendici: Female City Builders: Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias and Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames, prof.ssa Christine McWebb, University of Alberta, Canada (English) || Le Des Cas des Noble Hommes et Femmes de Bocace, prof.ssa Cécile Quentel Touche, Université de Rennes (français, 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§]

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.

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.

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.

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, Università 'La Sapienza' di Roma (italiano, English) || Some Observations on the Composition of the Bible, Osservazioni sulla composizione della Bibbia, prof.ssa Ida Zatelli, Università di Firenze (italiano, English) || The Hebrew Bible in the First Millennium, prof. Giuliano Tamani, Università 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, Università 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 Arqeològico 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§]

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 .

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.

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 alternating reds 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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