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Author Magill, Kevin J., 1972-

Title Julian of Norwich : mystic or visionary? / Kevin J. Magill
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 180 pages)
Series Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 4
Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 4.
Contents Understanding Julian's Showing of love as visionary theology -- The education of the senses -- Julian of Norwich : visual thinking, recollection and moral training -- The anchoress and her community -- The anchoritic life : origins and development -- Discernment, visions, and the problem of agency -- The anchoress's perforated cell -- The anchoress as solitary heroine -- Anchoritic modes of learning and interaction -- Imagery, literacy and audience -- The question of literacy : Julian as author -- Orality and visionary didacticism -- Oral techniques and visionary narrative -- The eucharist : a celebration of the visual -- The redemptive body and the redemption of vision -- The body problem -- Meditating on Christ's humanity -- Christ's body as redemptive reality : points of departure from Caroline Walker Bynum -- Establishing a divine perspective -- The redemption of vision
Summary Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love. Going against the current trend to place Julian in the category of mystic - a classification which defines her visions as deeply private, psychological events - this book sets Julian's thinking in the context of a visionary project used to instruct the Christian community. Drawing on recent developments in philos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
Julian, of Norwich, 1343- Revelations of divine love.
SUBJECT Julian, of Norwich, 1343- fast
Revelations of divine love (Julian, of Norwich) fast
Subject Visions -- England -- History -- To 1500
Visionaries -- England -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- Mysticism.
Visionaries
Visions
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203008278
9780203008270