Browsing by Author "Barratt, Alexandra"
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Book review: The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden, Vol. 2, Liber Caelestis, Books IV-V.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This article reviews the book “The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden, vol 2, Liber Caelestis, Books IV-V”, translated by Denis Searby. -
Continental women mystics and English readers
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden. Vadstena was the mother-house of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour and had ... -
Dame Eleanor Hull: The translator at work
(Society for the Study of Medieval languages & Literature, 2003)Barrat discusses the translations of a fifteenth-century translator Dame Eleanor Hull. The latter's translations are preserved in Cambridge University Library, a large and unusually well documented manuscript of religious ... -
Infancy and education in the writings of Gertrud the Great of Helfta
(Magistra Publications, 2000)The German Benedictine nun Gertrud the Great of Heifta c.1256-1302 was one of the most highly educated of medieval women mystics. Unlike most religious women of the Middle Ages, she not only read Latin but also wrote it ... -
Julian of Norwich and her children today: Editions, translations and versions of her revelations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)The viability of such concepts as "authorial intention," "the original text," "critical edition" and, above all, "scholarly editorial objectivity" is not what it was, and a study of the textual progeny of the revelations ...
