Julian of Norwich : mystic or visionary? - Magill, Kevin J., 1972- (London ; New York : Routledge, 2006)
Understanding Julian's Showing of love as visionary theology -- The education of the senses -- Julian of Norwich : visual thinking, recollection and moral training -- The anchoress and her community -- The anchoritic life : origins and development -- Discernment, visions, and the problem of agency -- The anchoress's perforated cell -- The anchoress as solitary heroine -- Anchoritic modes of learning and interaction -- Imagery, literacy and audience -- The question of literacy : Julian as author -- Orality and visionary didacticism -- Oral techniques and visionary narrative -- The eucharist : a celebration of the visual -- The redemptive body and the redemption of vision -- The body problem -- Meditating on Christ's humanity -- Christ's body as redemptive reality : points of departure from Caroline Walker Bynum -- Establishing a divine perspective -- The redemption of vision.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-171) and index.
Keywords: Julian, -- of Norwich, -- 1343-; Julian, -- of Norwich, -- 1343-; Visions -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Visionaries -- England -- History -- To 1500.