Julian of Norwich
Subtitle: mystic or visionary?
By: Kevin J. Magill.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343; Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343; Visions -- England -- History -- To 1500; Visionaries -- England -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Understanding Julian's Showing of love as visionary theology; title: The education of the senses; title: Plato : the sight of beauty and moral education; title: Aristotle : the physiology of the senses and moral consequences; title: St. Augustine : vision of the body and vision of the mind; title: Julian of Norwich : visual thinking, recollection and moral training; title: The anchoress and her community; title: The anchoritic life : origins and development; title: Discernment, visions, and the problem of agency; title: The anchoress's perforated cell; title: The anchoress as solitary heroine; title: Anchoritic modes of learning and interaction; title: Looking; title: Listening; title: Love; title: Imagery, literacy and audience; title: The question of literacy : Julian as author; title: Orality and visionary didacticism; title: Oral techniques and visionary narrative; title: The eucharist : a celebration of the visual; title: The redemption of the body and the redemption of vision; title: The body problem; title: Meditating on Christ's humanity; title: Christ's body as redemptive reality : points of departure from Caroline Walker Bynum; title: Establishing a divine perspective; title: The redemption of vision.