Revising the Body in Julian of Norwich's Revelations
This article argues that Julian consistently alludes to her initial bodily and visionary experience in revising the Short Text into the Long Text in order to mark the importance of bodily suffering as part of her spiritual transformation. Julian refers to these moments as astonishment, drawing on a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2019]
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2019, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-77 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Hypesthesia
B Parables B Crosses B Pain perception B Stupor B Somatosensory perception B Mind B Spiritual visions B Cognition B Allegory |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This article argues that Julian consistently alludes to her initial bodily and visionary experience in revising the Short Text into the Long Text in order to mark the importance of bodily suffering as part of her spiritual transformation. Julian refers to these moments as astonishment, drawing on a medieval understanding of a combined sensory and cognitive deprivation that precedes insight. This is most apparent in the Parable of the Lord and Servant in which Julian frames the vision with her own bodily experience, implicitly translating her own pain into the parable's servant. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-9650 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medieval religious cultures
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.45.1.0061 |