Dame juliana berners biography
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Dame juliana berners biography
Berners, Juliana (c. 1388–?)
English writer on hawking and hunting.Name variations: Julyans or Julians Barnes or Bernes. Born around 1388; either the daughter of Sir James Berners, who was beheaded in 1388, or the wife of the holder of the manor of Julians Barnes near St.
Albans.
Considered one of earliest published women writing in Britain, Juliana Berners was possibly the daughter of Sir James Berners who was beheaded in 1388 or possibly the wife of Julians Barnes. Though not much is known of her life, as a noblewoman she was probably brought up at court and certainly possessed a love of hawking, hunting, and fishing, as well as a passion for field sports.
The only documentary evidence regarding her is the statement at the end of her treatise on hunting contained in the Boke of St. Albans, "Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntyng."
The first and rarest edition of the Boke of St.
Albans, which has no title page, was printed in 1486 by an unknown St. Albans