A Companion to Julian of Norwich

A book that amply rewards its readers with a helpful overview of the current state of Julian scholarship as well as a guide to fitting the many fascinating aspects of Julian's writing into a coherent whole. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL * The most significant contribution to Julian studies in 2008. * YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES * It is good to have a study that places this so often most decontextualised of English mystics amongst contemporary writings and readers. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * By honestly summarizing what we do know about Julian, and then providing a range of interesting interpretations of this, the volume is definitely a stimulating introduction to contemporary debates around Julian. [...] The book is an excellent companion [...]. * PARERGON * This Companion is most welcome. * BULLETIN CODICOLOGIQUE * This collection provides accessible coverage of a range of debates about this popular late medieval figure. Containing important new work and tracing well-known debates about Julian, it will be a useful companion for both teachers and researchers. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY * Provides a valuable examination of current debates about the facts and assumptions regarding Julian's life and texts. [...] I strongly recommend it as a library purchase for the use of serious researchers as well as teachers introducing their students to Julian. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW * It is refreshing to be reminded that scholarship is of value for its own sake, and can reveal insights in familiar texts that continue to awaken our attention to what God still seeks to reveal to us. The second half of the collection contains some fascinating observations on interpretation which really begin to dig deep into the genius of Julian and why she holds such attraction for us today. * CHURCH TIMES *

LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College. CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature. Professor Diane Watt is Head of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. Secretaries of God won the 1998 Foster Watson Memorial Gift. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. LAURA SAETVEIT MILES is professor of British Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Introduction: `God forbade...that I am a techere': Who or what was Julian? Femininities and the Gentry in Late Medieval East Anglia: Ways of Being - Kim M Phillips `A recluse atte Norwyche': Images of Medieval Norwich and Julian's Revelati ons - Cate Gunn `No such sitting': Julian Tropes the Trinity - John Sexton, Book Reviews Editor Julian of Norwich and the Varieties of Middle English Mystical Discourse - Denise N Baker Saint Julian of the Apocalypse - Diane Watt Anchoritic Aspects of Julian of Norwich - E A Jones Julian of Norwich and the Liturgy - Annie Sutherland Julian's Second Thoughts: The Long Text Tradition - Barry A Windeatt `This blessed beholdyng': Reading the Fragments from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love in London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS4MS4 - Marleen Cre The Seventeenth-century Manuscript Tradition and the Influence of Augustine Baker - Elisabeth Dutton Julian of Norwich's `Modernist Style' and the Creation of Audience - Elizabeth Robertson Space and Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love - Laura Saetveit Miles `For we be doubel of God's making': Writing, Gender and the Body in Julian of Norwich - Liz Herbert McAvoy Julian's Revelation of Love: A Web of Metaphor - Ena Jenkins `[S]he do the police in different voices': Pastiche, Ventriloquism and Parody in Julian of Norwich - Vincent Gillespie Julian's Afterlives - Sarah Salih Bibliography Index