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IntroductionLikeness of God and the Restoration of Humanity in Julian of Norwich's Showings, Sandra J. McEntire * Image of God: Contrasting Configurations in Julian of Norwich's Showings and Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection, Denise N. Baker; Trinitarian Hermeneutic in Revelation of Love, Nicholas Watson * St. Cecilia and St. John of Beverly: Julian of Norwich's Early Model and Late Affirmation, Susan K. Hagen * Genre Approach to Julian of Norwich's Epistemology, Brad PetersPoint of Coincidence: Rhetoric and the Apothatic in Julian of Norwich's Showings, Cynthea Masson * I wold for this loue dye: Julian, Romance Discourse, and the Masculine Jay Ruud * Julian's Diabology, David Tinsley * In the Lowest Part of Our Need: Julian and Medieval Gynecological Writing, Alexandra Barratt * A Question of Audience: The Westminster Text and 15th-Century Reception of Julian of Norwich, Hugh Kempster * Leaving the Womb of Christ: Love, Doomsday, and Space?Time in Julian of Norwich and Eastern Orthodox Mysticism, Brant Plephrey
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Sandra J. McEntire
Summary
The essays in this book provide a rich evaluation of this late 14th and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations and considers the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary context.
