Estimates given for Julian's lifetime range around 6,000. Population fell dramatically in the fourteenth century because of the plague. In 1066, the population was something over 10,000. Evidence points to Norwich's relative size and importance at the close of the Anglo-Saxon period. Competence in Latin was an accepted fourteenth-century meaning of literacy.Ä¢ Medieval England did not have the populous urban centers of the continent. A gathering of evidence which leans toward keeping the question open appears in Pelphrey (1982), pp. The evidence for Julian's learning is most formidably assembled in the 1978 edition of Colledge and Walsh, I, 43-59, and notes throughout, cited here as C&W. THE SHEWINGS OF JULIAN OF NORWICH, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTESÄ¡ Among those endorsing the first suggestion are Fathers Edmund Colledge and James Walsh (C&W, I, 47) among those proposing the second, Riehle, p.
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