‘Faith Seeking Understanding’

Abstract

At first sight Anselm of Canterbury and Julian of Norwich seem to have little in common. The one, a monk from Normandy who became Archbishop of Canterbury under William Rufus, was one of the greatest of medieval scholars, writing his prayers and meditations in beautiful, highly-wrought Latin in the eleventh century. The other, an unlettered lay-woman, a recluse in the town of Norwich, who wrote (or perhaps dictated) her revelations and meditations on them in English in the fourteenth century. Both wrote a short devotional work, however, Julian’s Revelations of Divine Love and Anselm’s Prayers and Meditations , and it seems clear that they both belong to the same tradition of Christian prayer.

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