Research Catalog

Title

Showings : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Julian of Norwich ; edited by Denise N. Baker.

Author

Julian, of Norwich, 1343-

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baker, Denise Nowakowski, 1946-

Description

xxvii, 213 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the works of fourteenth-century English author, Julian of Norwich designed for undergraduate students, and contains authoritative texts and critical essays.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

• Revelations of divine love
• Norton critical edition.

Alternative Title

• Revelations of divine love
• Showings of Julian of Norwich

Subject

• Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
• Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
• Devotional literature, English (Middle)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The text of Showings ; Contexts: From the short text of The showings / Julian of Norwich -- From The book of Margery Kempe / Margery Kempe -- From The trinity / Augustine -- From The scale of perfection / Walter Hilton -- From De institutione inclosarum / Aelred of Rievaulx -- From Ancrene wisse (A guide for anchoresses) / Anonymous ; Criticism: From The life of an anchoress / Grace M. Jantzen -- The trope of the scribe and the question of literary authority in the texts of Julian of Norwich / Lynn Staley Johnson -- From The humanity of Christ: reflections on Julian of Norwich's Revelation of love / David Aers -- From The likeness of God and the restoration of humanity in Julian of Norwich's Showings / Sandra J. McEntire -- Human nature: the image of God / Joan M. Nuth -- Jesus as mother / Caroline Walker Bynum -- The art of mystical loving: Julian of Norwich / B.A. Windeatt

ISBN

0393979156 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004054774

OCLC

• 55887401
• SCSB-12375594

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library