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Julian of Norwich - Mystic or Visionary? (Hardcover)
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Julian of Norwich - Mystic or Visionary? (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
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"Julian of Norwich" was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age
of thirty had a series of vivid visions centered on the crucified
Christ, twenty years later while living as an anchoress in a church
she is believed to have set out her visions in a text called the
Showing of Love. The trend in modern scholarship is to place Julian
in the category of mystic rather than visionary, a classification
which defines her visions as deeply private, psychological events.
This book instead sets Julian's thinking in the context of a
visionary project which she used to instruct the Christian
community.
Drawing on recent developments in philosophy which debate the
objectivity and rationality of vision and perception, Kevin J.
Magill gives full attention to the depth and richness of the visual
language and modes of perception in the Showing of Love, doing
justice to the major themes in Julian's teaching. In particular the
book focuses on the ways in which Julian presented her vision to
the Christian society around her, demonstrating the educative
potential of interaction between the "isolated" anchoress and the
wider community. Challenging Julian's identification as a mystic
and solitary female writer this book argues that Julian engaged in
a variety of educative methods - oral, visual, conversational,
mnemonic, alliterative - that extend the usefulness of her text.
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