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OUR VIRTUAL LIBRARY OF CHAUCERIAN AND OTHER MEDIEVAL TEXTS: ♫=Scribal/Oral Texts, to be seen and heard simultaneously:
♫ Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, ♫ The General Prologue, ♫ The Knight's Tale, ♫ The Miller's Tale, ♫ The Cook's Tale, ♫The Man of Law's Tale, ♫ The Clerk's Tale, ♫ The Merchant's Tale, ♫ The Squire's Tale, ♫ The Wife of Bath's Prologue, ♫ The Wife of Bath's Tale, ♫The Franklin's Tale, ♫ The Physician's Tale,  ♫ The Pardoner's Tale, ♫ The Shipman's Tale, ♫ The Prioress' Tale, ♫ Chaucer's Tales, of Sir Thopas, of Melibee, ♫ The Monk's Tales, ♫ The Nuns' Priest's Tale, ♫ The Second Nun's Tale, ♫ The Canon Yeoman's Tale, ♫ The Manciple's Tale, ♫ The Parson's Sermon ♫ Chaucer's Retraction, ♫ e.e. cummings, The Canterbury Tales, ♫ The Book of the Duchess, ♫ The Parlement of Fowls, ♫ The House of Fame, ♫Troilus and Criseyde, ♫The Legend of Good Women ♫The Tretisse on the Astrolabe, ♫ 'Ballade to Truth', etc., in Middle English
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Opening of Westminster Cathedral Manuscript of Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love
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http://www.umilta.net/Xanadu.html Proposal to the European Union

For Julian in Russian Translated by Juliana Dresvina, Reviewed by Bishop Kallistos Ware, Archbishop Rowan Williams, Professor Eamon Duffy

Voice Recording of The Soul a City: Julian and Margery
Voice Recording of Julian of Norwich, The Lord and the Servant
Voice Recording of Martin Buber's Julian of Norwich
Song Recording of Lydia McCauley, Sabbath Day's Journey: 'And All Shall Be Well'
Voice Recording of Thomas Gascoigne's Life of St Birgitta at birgitvita.mp3
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Voice Recording of Augustine, Confessions XI
Recording of Ambrosian Chant, 'Deus Creator Omnium', heard by Augustine in Milan
Voice Recording of Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Dante: Julian's Mystical Philosophy at augmyst.mp3
Voice Recordings in italiano of Dante Alighieri, Commedia, recited, Carlo Poli,
Lettura di Carlo Poli a Dante vivo, Inferno I, Inferno II, Inferno III, Inferno IV, Inferno V, Inferno VI, Inferno VII, Inferno VIII, Inferno IX, Inferno X, Inferno XI, Inferno XII, Inferno XIII, Inferno XIV, Inferno XV, Inferno XVI, Inferno XVII, Inferno XVIII, Inferno XIX, Inferno XX, Inferno XXI, Inferno XXII, Inferno XXIII, Inferno XXIV, Inferno XXV, Inferno XXVI, Inferno XXVII, Inferno XXVIII, Inferno XXIX, Inferno XXX, Inferno XXXI, Inferno XXXII, Inferno XXXIII, Inferno XXXIV  || Purgatorio I, Purgatorio II, Purgatorio III, Purgatorio IV, Purgatorio V, Purgatorio VI, Purgatorio VII, Purgatorio VIII, Purgatorio IX, Purgatorio X, Purgatorio XI, Purgatorio XII, Purgatorio XIII, Purgatorio XIV, Purgatorio XV, Purgatorio XVI, Purgatorio XVII, Purgatorio XVIII, Purgatorio XIX, Purgatorio XX, Purgatorio XXI, Purgatorio XXII, Purgatorio XXIII, Purgatorio XXIV, Purgatorio XXV, Purgatorio XXVI, Purgatorio XXVII, Purgatorio XXVIII, Purgatorio XXIX, Purgatorio XXX, Purgatorio XXXI, Purgatorio XXXII, Purgatorio XXXIII || Paradiso I, Paradiso II, Paradiso III, Paradiso IV, Paradiso V, Paradiso VI, Paradiso VII, Paradiso VIII, Paradiso IX, Paradiso X, Paradiso XI, Paradiso XII, Paradiso XIII, Paradiso XIV, Paradiso XV, Paradiso XVI, Paradiso XVII, Paradiso XVIII, Paradiso XIX, Paradiso XX, Paradiso XXI, Paradiso XXII, Paradiso XXIII, Paradiso XXIV, Paradiso XXV, Paradiso XXVI, Paradiso XXVII, Paradiso XXVIII, Paradiso XXIX, Paradiso XXX, Paradiso XXXI, Paradiso XXXII, Paradiso XXXIII
Padre Nostro, Vergine Madre
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Peter Neville, from New Zealand, reciting his Maori genealogy, and discussing poems
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We suggest your opening two or three of these simultaneously for an intriguing effect, mixing together speech and music, like a medieval motet, that you create. Re-call this page in your browser, while reducing each .mp3 file, these continuing to play polyphonally as background to the visual text. At first books were written out by hand, in manuscript, often gold-leafed as well as rainbow-coloured, and were read aloud and chanted from. Then they became black and white printed books, read silently in intellectual loneliness. Now they can be the sensuous luminous and harmonious pages, with colour again, and with song, with voice, through the new/old technologies of alphabet and number, the zeros and ones, of our computers, of our information society. With the new technology we return writing to the recording of human speech that it really is, an earlier technology, from merely the letters and the silent eye to the sounding voice and the ear as well. With thanks to Godfriends Julie and Ilya in Oxford and to my cousin Robin in Canada.

For the Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' library holdings on Julian of Norwich and other contemplatives, see http://www.florin.ms/libgimel.html. The library is housed in Florence at the 'English' Cemetery, P.le Donatello, 38, 50132 FIRENZE, ITALY, and one may become a member and reader through the gift to it of a book a year.

{In the early Middle Ages, the first two thirds of Christianity, in monasteries and convents, women could be equally learned as were men. These were Schools for Prayer, living the Word of God, the Gospel, the Bible. In the Twelfth Century, in Paris, the pagan Greco-Arabic model of the university was subverted and adopted by the Church. From its lecture halls, where theology now came to be taught to authorized specialists, women were rigorously excluded, only finding their way back partially into the world of learning in our past century. Likewise with this learning, minds became abstracted and divorced from soul and from body, from the family, from women and children, concentrating upon the intellect only, out of harmony and balance to flesh and blood reality, to Creation. In this website, crafted by both men and women, and also by their children, shall be presented a wealth of learning for men and women and children, culled through time from spiritual, rather than temporal, sources, from collaborative, not competitive, communities. Imagine this composite website as your monastic library, your scriptorium, within your anchorhold, to read in prayerful contemplation. Wisdom, God's Daughter, says:

{The Lord created me at the beginning of his work. The first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth  . . . When he established the heavens I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep. When he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep.  When he assigned to the sea its limits, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight,  Rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world .

Proverbs 8.22-31

{Although she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God and prophets . . .  She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other and sweetly doth she order all things.

Wisdom of Solomon 7.27-8.1

{For if hevene be on this erthe . and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistere or in scole . be many skilles I fynde;
For in cloistre cometh no man . to chide ne to fi3te,
But alle is buxomnesse there and bokes . to rede and to lerne.

Piers Plowman B.X.300-303

Westminster Cathedral Manuscript , Julian on the Hazel Nut

Italian blessed olive leaves , Australian hazelnut

Earth First Seen From Space
 

The Umilta Website, about the love of God and neighbour, is constructed as a colour-coded memory system as were medieval manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon materials in alternating reds and greens, later medieval materials in alternating reds and blues, in the latter case like pulsating umbilical cords, of the Word become flesh dwelling in our midst, oliveleaf trauma healing material being in blues and greens. Brown ink signifies a quotation from a manuscript, other text in grey signifying modern commentary. A hierarchy of scripts is used with large capitals for websites, smaller capitals for their subsets, in the titles to essays. Rather than modern technology, with counters, java, flags, we shall use an ancient simplicity in words and images, from the Age of Faith. As did Julian herself. Had she lived in our centuries, Julian would have used the Internet so. This Website, like Julian's Benedictinism, is intentionally a school of learning, a school for contemplation; yet, like Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love, it is for everyone, wherever you may be in the world, poor or rich, crippled or whole, lay or cleric, children, women, men. As Ritamary Bradley wrote in Julian's Way: A Practical Commentary on Julian of Norwich (London: Harper Collins, 1992), we are about not only the theory, but also the practice, of Julian of Norwich's Showing of Love, in all its kaleidoscopic aspects, like dew upon cobwebs sparkling amidst mist, like the Gothic traceries of Julian's Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Norwich.
 

Norwich Cathedral

Copying Julian, this webmistress lives as a hermit in a graveyard, though in Florence rather than Norwich. Why our English has to spill over into Italian, and even Spanish and Portuguese. We are global. We are ecumenical. We are like Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle. About spiritual riches, not ephemeral money. We encourage the parallel use of languages other than English. We encourage the learning of skills and handcrafts. We are a library about a library. We encourage you in the writing of books, of web essays, that restore meaning. The Web, like Wisdom, God's Daughter, can reach from one end of the globe to the other, sweetly ordering all things, but not in temporal or spatial linearity, instead, with hypertexting, with elaborate weaving and embroidering, with the tracery of cobwebs with dew on them, reflected in Gothic windows, arabesqueing back upon itself through time and space. In this we mirror the synapses of the human brain/mind, powered by our hearts/ lungs, charged by our souls in God's image. We seek your creative contributions.
  

In Italian, French, Spanish, English, Russian German: /crosstations

In italiano:
/alfabeto come famiglia, /angelicorosary, /benedettina, /biblioteca, /bigallo, /bluegreen, /brigida, /buber, /canterbury, /casaguidi, /child, /convegni, /crosstations, /dante, /door, /eremo, /francesca, /trauma-healing, /GiulianaEbraismo /gloria, /lapiramazzei, /lent, /mass, /myriam, /padrenostro, paideiadantesca/, /povertà, /beatoangelicorosary, /ruusbroec, /sayiner, Vita Nuova, ecc., Atti dei Convegni Internazionali in Firenze, 'La citta` e il libro I: L'alfabeto, la Bibbia'; La città e il libro II: Il manoscritto, la miniatura; La città e il libro III: Il Cimitero 'degli Inglesi' /Libreria Editrice Fiorentina; Dante Alighieri, Commedia, lettura di Carlo Poli, Inferno I, Inferno II, Inferno III, Inferno IV, Inferno V, Inferno VIII, Inferno X, Inferno XIII, Inferno XV, Inferno XVI, Inferno XXXIII, Inferno XXXIV; Purgatorio I, Purgatorio II, Purgatorio III, Purgatorio IV, Purgatorio V, Purgatorio VI, Purgatorio VII, Purgatorio VIII, Purgatorio X, Purgatorio XI, Purgatorio XX, Purgatorio XXI, Purgatorio XXIX, Purgatorio XXX, Purgatorio XXXI, Purgatorio  XXXII, Purgatorio XXXIII; Paradiso I, Paradiso II, Paradiso III, Paradiso IV, Paradiso V, Paradiso XXXIII; Padre Nostro, Vergine Madre; Poesie da un Penny, e file audio, Poesie

Pope Benedict XVI speaking in Italian on Julian of Norwich at the Papal Audience, 1 December 2010 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101201_it.html#

Im Portugues:
AUDIO FILE IN PORTUGUESE, SONETOS PORTUGUESES II recorded by Roderigo Araês Caldas Farias who came with his wife from Brazil to visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb,
/pindex, /chefe, /phand, /PaiNosso, /gypsy
Beneditinos: /pbento, /pcambray, /pcoll1, /pcoll3, /pcath, /pmonja, /pexempl, /pgascoign

In Spanish:
/crosstations, /eremit, /padre nuestro

In Latin:
/abbess, /arundel, /august, /bennet, /birgitta (this website includes all of St Birgitta of Sweden's Revelationes in Latin), /certosa, /clare1,
/clare2, /gregory, /jerusalem, /kalmar, monksplays/ /rb1, /rb2, /rb3, /scholastica, /terence (this website includes two of Terence's plays, Heontimorumenos and Eunuchus, plus two of Hrotswitha's, Abraham and Mary, Paphnutius and Thais, plus two of the Orléans Manuscript 201,liturgical dramas Resuscitatio Lazari and Officium Peregrinum, in their Latin), /walterjong (Wit and Mystery in Mediaeval Latin Hymnody) /whiterig, /VII Great O Antiphons of Advent, XV O's of Holy Week

En français:
/aucassin, /crosstations

In Russian
/sergius

On Codicology and Paleography:
/amherst, /aucassin /binding, /ege, /folio, /gascoigne, /norcastl, /papyrology, /tablet, /terence, /terencechaucer, /upholland, /westmins, /whiterig, /beth (on manuscripts and documents in Florentine libraries and archives), /libzayin.

Of particular use in teaching and learning even Latin with laughter at all levels: /alphabet; /playschool, /terence (Terence's Comedies, and medieval plays based on these, with engravings and manuscript illuminations); and /aucassin, the chant-fable Aucassin and Nicolete, in parallel text, English and French, with its medieval music and with contemporary illuminations, both providing material which can be performed in modern classrooms/ lecture halls.

On being a monk in the world, a hermit in the city:
/benedict, /birgitta, /burningbush, /cloister, /columban, /eremit, /eremo, /gabrielia, /julian, /soulcity

Pages with external portals/links:
/cloister, /folio, /preface

Pages with internal portals/links:
/amherst, /benedict, /bible, /birgitta, /cathersiena, /cloister, /equally, /familyalbum, /julian, /mirror, /oliveleaf, /prayer, /Rom, /terence, /wisdom (scriptorium)

  Sister Anna Maria Reynolds C.P. was the greatest editor Julian ever had. During the war years she was transcribing the extant microfilms with a microscope, a word at a time, for her Leeds University MA and Ph.D. theses. Subsequent editions are based on her meticulous work. 

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E-BOOKS OUR VIRTUAL LIBRARY PUBLISHES ON LINE:

The Julian of Norwich Library Project:
Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time Latin and English
Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women In Progress
Benedict's Rule Latin
Gregory's Dialogue II Latin
John Whitrig, Contemplating the Crucifixion
William Flete, Remedies against Temptations
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes Latin
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages
A Benedictine Nun in Exile, Colections
Jarena Lee, Her Call to Preach the Gospel
Rose Lloyds, An English Rose

The Brunetto Latino Project:
OpereBrunettoLatino
Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto Italian and English
Brunetto Latini, Il Bestiario Italian
Sweet New Style: Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer
Aucassin and Nicolete French and English

Florence in Sepia Project:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence Italian and English
Susan and Joanna Horner, Walks in Florence, transcribed, Carolyn Carpenter
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 'Florence', from Notes in Italy
Augustus J.C. Hare, Florence
Florence in Sepia

Oliveleaf
Poems Pennyeach
Mosaic

See /portfolio for hard-copy books and CDs available from this website, which publishes books to support its library, the Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei'

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The Umilta Website functions as part (Mediatheca) of the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei in Florence. It seeks materials to publish, particularly texts and editions related to contemplative women: Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Umilta of Faenza, etc., and materials on manuscript studies, including digital editions of manuscripts. Editor and Webmistress: Sister Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family, Director of the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei. Editorial Board: Professor James Hogg, Analecta Cartusiana; Rev. Matthew Naumes. Publisher: Editrice "Aureo Anello". Sponsor: Aureo Anello Associazione Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei e Amici del Cimitero 'degli Inglesi'. Contributions are welcomed, particularly in the relevant languages, and can be sent to the Editor.

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Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations Translated from Latin and Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Focus Library of Medieval Women. Series Editor, Jane Chance. xv + 164 pp. Revised, republished,  Boydell and Brewer, 1997. Republished, Boydell and Brewer, 2000. ISBN 0-941051-18-8

To see an example of a page inside with parallel text in Middle English and Modern English, variants and explanatory notes, click here. Index to this book at http://www.umilta.net/julsismelindex.html

Julian of Norwich. Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation. Edited. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and Julia Bolton Holloway. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo (Click on British flag, enter 'Julian of Norwich' in search box), 2001. Biblioteche e Archivi 8. XIV + 848 pp. ISBN 88-8450-095-8.

To see inside this book, where God's words are in red, Julian's in black, her editor's in grey, click here. 

Julian of Norwich. Showing of Love. Translated, Julia Bolton Holloway. Collegeville: Liturgical Press; London; Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003. Amazon ISBN 0-8146-5169-0/ ISBN 023252503X. xxxiv + 133 pp. Index.

 
'Colections' by an English Nun in Exile: Bibliothèque Mazarine 1202. Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family. Analecta Cartusiana 119:26. Eds. James Hogg, Alain Girard, Daniel Le Blévec. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2006.

Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton OSB. Analecta Cartusiana 35:20 Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-902649-01-0. ix + 399 pp. Index. Plates.

Teresa Morris. Julian of Norwich: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Handbook. Preface, Julia Bolton Holloway. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. x + 310 pp.  ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-3678-7; ISBN-10: 0-7734-3678-2. Maps. Index.

Fr Brendan Pelphrey. Lo, How I Love Thee: Divine Love in Julian of Norwich. Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway. Amazon, 2013. ISBN 978-1470198299

 

Julian among the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. xxi + 328 pp. VII Plates, 59 Figures. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8894-X, ISBN (13) 978-1-4438-8894-3.

Mary's Dowry; An Anthology of Pilgrim and Contemplative Writings/ La Dote di Maria:Antologie di Testi di Pellegrine e Contemplativi. Traduzione di Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotto. Testo a fronte, inglese/italiano. Analecta Cartusiana 35:21 Spiritualität Heute und Gestern. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2017. ISBN 978-3-903185-07-4. ix + 484 pp.

See http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichjulian/norwichjulian.htm


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