"The Precious Plenty": Julian of Norwich’s Visions in Blood
Julian’s detailed descriptions of Christ’s bleeding body, this article demonstrates, relies on physiological language that she shares with medical discourse. Reading A Revelation of Love alongside medieval medical treatises, such as Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s De proprietatibus rerum or Henry Daniel’s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2020, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-90 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NBF Christology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Medicine B Julian of Norwich B Blood |
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| Summary: | Julian’s detailed descriptions of Christ’s bleeding body, this article demonstrates, relies on physiological language that she shares with medical discourse. Reading A Revelation of Love alongside medieval medical treatises, such as Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s De proprietatibus rerum or Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum, can help us better understand Julian’s theology. She combines theology and medicine to construct a unique picture of a Jesus who, as a man, shares a physiological makeup with all humans and who, as a Savior, connects humans to the divine. |
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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.46.1.0071 |