Research Catalog

Title

A companion to Julian of Norwich / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.

Publication

Cambridge [England] : D.S. Brewer ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Herbert McAvoy, Liz

Description

xi, 249 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Here, one of the most important Christian writers of the Middle Ages is studied in her historical and literary context. The contributions look at issues such as gender studies, Julian's place within manuscript traditions and ways of interpreting her writings - particularly the 'Revelations of Divine Love'.

Subject

• Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
• Julian, of Norwich, 1343- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: 'God forbade that I am a techere' : who, or what, was Julian? / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Femininities and the gentry in late medieval East Anglia : ways of being / Kim M. Phillips -- 'A recluse atte Norwyche' : images of medieval Norwich and Julian's Revelations / Cate Gunn -- 'No such sitting' : Julian tropes the Trinity / Alexandra Barratt -- Julian of Norwich and the varieties of Middle English mystical discourse / Denise N. Baker -- Saint Julian of the Apocalypse / Diane Watt -- Anchoritic aspects of Julian of Norwich / E.A. Jones -- Julian of Norwich and the liturgy / Annie Sutherland -- Julian's second thoughts : the long text tradition / Barry Windeatt -- 'This blessed beholdyng' : reading the fragments from Julian of Norwich's A revelation of divine love in London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4 / Marleen Cré -- The seventeenth-century manuscript tradition and the influence of Augustine Baker / Elisabeth Dutton -- Julian of Norwich's 'modernist' style and the creation of audience / Elizabeth Robertson -- Space and enclosure in Julian of Norwich's A revelation of love / Laura Saetveit Miles -- 'For we be doubel of God's making' : writing, gender, and the body in Julian of Norwich / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Julian's Revelation of love : a web of metaphor / Ena Jenkins -- '[S]he do the police in different voices' : pastiche, ventriloquism and parody in Julian of Norwich / Vincent Gillespie -- Julian's afterlives / Sarah Salih.

ISBN

• 9781843841722 (hbk.)
• 184384172X (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2008298713

OCLC

• 209770466
• SCSB-11358011

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library