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“For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.”

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Juliana Berners

Juliana Berners, an active writer from 1388 to 1460, is renowned for her works on agriculture and sheep farming. Her book 'The Book of St. Julian of Norwich' is an important source of medieval agricultural literature. more

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