The Lockdown Chronicles 1: Julian

~ Ernesto Priego

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Julian is self-solating and has been working from home for a while.
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Julian of Norwich (late 1342 – after 1416) was an English anchorite. She wrote what is thought to be the earliest surviving book in the English language to be written by a woman, Revelations of Divine Love. [Wikipedia entry].

Source text: Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love.

Source image: Statue of St. Mary and Jesus in Julian Shrine, via the Julian Centre, Norwich, UK. With gratitude.

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The Lockdown Chronicles is a series of periodical comic strips made at night (in candlelight!) adapting and reusing openly-licensed or public domain items from online digital collections. Publication and tweetage are scheduled in advance. Historical sources are adapted and updated for the current pandemic; please refer to each strip’s references on each post for further context.  Catch up with the series at https://epriego.blog/tag/the-lockdown-chronicles/.

Published by Ernesto Priego

I'm a lecturer, researcher and editor. I'm interested in many things and do work in many areas. I'm into human-computer interaction design, digital humanities, comics studies, scholarly communications, open access, open data, ethics, public health, politics, media, journalism, human rights. You can follow me on Twitter @ernestopriego.