1. Femininities and the Gentry in Late Medieval East Anglia: 19 Ways of Being

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. Introduction: ‘God forbede … that I am a techere’: Who, or what, was Julian? 1
8. PART I JULIAN IN CONTEXT
9. 1. Femininities and the Gentry in Late Medieval East Anglia: 19 Ways of Being 17
10. 2 ‘A recluse atte Norwyche’: Images of Medieval Norwich and Julian’s Revelations 32
11. 3 ‘No such sitting’: Julian Tropes the Trinity 42
12. 4 Julian of Norwich and the Varieties of Middle English Mystical Discourse 53
13. 5 Saint Julian of the Apocalypse 64
14. 6 Anchoritic Aspects of Julian of Norwich 75
15. 7 Julian of Norwich and the Liturgy 88
16. PART II MANUSCRIPT TRADITION AND INTERPRETATION
17. 8. Julian’s Second Thoughts: The Long Text Tradition 99
18. 9 ‘This blessed beholdyng’: Reading the Fragments from Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love in London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury, MS 4 116
19. 10 The Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Tradition and the Influence of Augustine Baker 127
20. 11 Julian of Norwich’s ‘Modernist Style’ and the Creation of Audience 139
21. 12 Space and Enclosure in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation Of Love 154
22. 13 ‘For we be doubel of God’s making’: Writing, Gender and the Body in Julian of Norwich 166
23. 14 Julian’s Revelation of Love: A Web of Metaphor 181
24. 15 ‘[S]he do the police in different voices’: Pastiche, Ventriloquism and Parody in Julian of Norwich 192
25. 16 Julian’s Afterlives 208
26. Select Bibliography 219
27. Index 237