...Arabella Milbank This essay questions the current critical attitude toward medieval understandings of the body. It tests the limits of the contemporary “corporeal turn” by reassessing a textual crux in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love . Contesting the dominant, defecatory reading...

...Grace Hamman In A Revelation of Love , Julian of Norwich employs the similitude of Christ as a mother and the Christian as his child to describe and explore the relationship between God and humanity. Theologians, literary critics, and historians alike have studied the theological...

... by incorporating an innovative guide for discernment in A Revelation of Love that prioritizes trust over suspicion. Julian's trusting form of discernment offers a way to recuperate one of the most stigmatized aspects of femininity: woman's perceived susceptibility to diabolical influence. A Revelation of Love...

...Michelle Karnes The relationship between a base text and its analysis in the Middle Ages is often considered tenuous or downright fanciful, an issue that this article addresses with primary reference to Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love . It argues that Julian uses the discontinuities within...

... of mystics, antinomians, and members of the Family of Love. Creech's dossier—transcribed and annotated here—is compared and verified against independent manuscript evidence, revealing the contours of a striking ecosystem of sectarian religion thriving in the capital. Creech's revelations are then used...

... in hym, so per ghtli that bi ravyschynge of this love the soule is ooned [united] for the tyme and conformyd to the ymage of the Trinit Aside from how startlingly similar this passage is to Bale’s description of John’s revelation (quoted above), several points should be noted...

...,” wherein Freud uses his analysis of “problems” in Shakespeare to displace his own anxieties and desires.19 Freud argues that Bassanio’s choice of the lead casket (and “true love”) is really, through a process of displacement, a choice of death. Freud ends his essay with a curious justification...

... of saints.14 “Our Catharina was one,” Raymond concludes, “in whose heart were gathered together both the universal collectivity of all the virtues . . . and the universal collectivity of all the faithful of the Church, which she loved so intensely” (par. 11). Catherine herself uses the image...

...; and that Jhesus, our very love, light, and truth shall shew to all clen soules that with mekenes aske perseverantly this wisdom of hym. And thou to whome this booke shall come, thanke heyly and hertely our savior Christ Jhesu that he made these shewings and revelations for the[e], and to the[e], of his endless...

... Revelation of Love of Christ commending her for her “servys . . . and namely of [her] youth,” she leaves the specific content of that youthful service delib- erately opaque. There is no list of action verbs to tell us what counts as “servys” for her in this early part of the Revelation.22 By contrast...

.../vernacular relation to be bound up with and inflected by other linguistic, literary, religious, and political ten- sions, namely, those between High and Low German, divine and courtly love, lay and cloistered forms of religious life, court and town, center and frontier...

..., and James Walsh, SJ, 2 vols. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978), 13.27.405. 67 Denise Nowakoski Baker, Julian of Norwich's “Showings”: From Vision to Book (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 69. 68 Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love , ed. Marion...

... again some time later, and Žnds Pelagia dead, whereupon a crowd of fathers and monks preside over a lavish burial. The literature of the harlot-saints of late ancient and early Byzan- tine Christianity has often been characterized as “dramatic tale[s] of a lust turned into love.”15...

... in love at first sight, expressed in the play’s opening scenes: Antony fell in love not at first sight but at first smell.55 The setting underscores this view: Tarsus, in Turkey, was the legendary home of King Caspar, one of the three Magi, who offered gifts of myrrh, and was well known for its...

..., unconstrained by the hierarchies of Latin and of Latin scholastic theology, which encouraged an equivalent generosity in the theology of salvation.12 Watson’s principal witness, along with Piers Plowman, is Julian of Norwich. In the earlier “short text” of her Revelation of Love, called in the new...

... 2 the winner by a very large margin. Why? Author 2 loves to point out failure. The following cultural forma- tions were and are failures: medieval Christendom (not its “ideal” doctrine, but all its failing Christians); the Reformation; confessionalized Europe; and Western modernity...

... the movement to God of the rational creature through its characteristic operations of willing and knowing. Thus, after some questions (I-­II.1  –  5) on the end of human existence, beatitude, which can occur in the next life in the immediate knowing and loving of God as end, and after questions (I-II.6...

.... When each mem- ber of the company begins to boast about the charms of his lady love, the tornadizo declares that his amiga is “pale and rosy like the sunrise,” a descrip- tion that arouses the Muslim king’s lust. When the ruler demands that the tornadizo deliver this beauty to him, the man...

..., that focuses on his suffering to illustrate his redeeming love. Christ III concludes with judgment of the wicked and the righteous, the terrors of hell, and the joys of heaven. Despite Christ III 's “striking and vivid account” of Judgment and Crucifixion, events where time, language, and the ineffable...

... is the flesh soon to be scourged and torn, a sign of the rent flesh she sees in an earlier revelation. The fleshly clothes that humanity wears are signs of that love, not signs of alienation. In terms of the drama of conversion, Julian appears to sketch out a familiar set of conditions...