{"product_id":"i-julian","title":"I Julian","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'So I will write in English,\u003cwbr\u003e pressing new words from this beautiful plain language spoken by all. Not courtly French to introduce God politely. Not church Latin to construct arguments. English to show it as it is. Even though it is not safe to do so.'\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the author of \u003ci\u003eMiles to Go before I Sleep \u003c\/i\u003ecomes \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI,\u003cwbr\u003e Julian\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003cwbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe account of a medieval woman who dares to tell her own story,\u003cwbr\u003e battling grief,\u003cwbr\u003e plague,\u003cwbr\u003e the church and societal expectations to do so. Compelled by the powerful visions she had when close to death,\u003cwbr\u003e Julian finds a way to live a life of freedom - as an anchoress,\u003cwbr\u003e bricked up in a small room on the side of a church - and to write of what she has seen. The result,\u003cwbr\u003e passed from hand to hand,\u003cwbr\u003e is the first book to be written by a woman in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tender,\u003cwbr\u003e luminous,\u003cwbr\u003e meditative and powerful,\u003cwbr\u003e Julian writes of her love for God,\u003cwbr\u003e and God's love for the whole of creation. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'All shall be well,\u003cwbr\u003e and all shall be well,\u003cwbr\u003e and all manner of thing shall be well.'\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Written with \u003cb\u003eprofound insight\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cwbr\u003e spiritual and psychological,\u003cwbr\u003e and a rare sensitivity to the everyday world of the fourteenth century,\u003cwbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eI,\u003cwbr\u003e Julian\u003ci\u003e is a \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly illuminating \u003c\/b\u003ecompanion to one of the greatest works of spiritual writing in English.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eRowan Williams\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cwbr\u003e Magdalene College,\u003cwbr\u003e Cambridge University\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e\u003c\/wbr\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57394492047742,"sku":"NW9781399807548","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399807548.jpg?v=1778602674","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/i-julian","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}