The title of this book – Femina – was the label scribbled alongside texts known to be written by a woman, so less worthy of preservation. We can only wonder how many other texts were dismissed or destroyed as the work of ‘femina’. Revelations of Divine Love should have gone the same way and fallen victim to the book burnings of generations of reformers. Tracing the rare survival of Julian of Norwich’s work can shed light on why so few medieval women have been recorded down the centuries.
