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Women's Literature 3 Julian of Norwich: A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich 537 Views


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What's Julian's book about, and what's with all the visions? And are any of the visions about us winning the lottery? Hey, we can dream, right?

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Thank you We sneak Gillian and gnarly What is a

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book of showing to the bankers Julian of norwich eyelash

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like marjorie come julian of norwich is having crazy religious

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visions Hers are even more intense So she's in this

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religious environment she sees herself almost directing conversation with jesus

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She imagines jesus bleeding from the eyeballs she imagined the

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blood being recycled through his feet Cem pretty intense stuff

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I think it's important here that she has like some

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kind of overarching moral ideas right Andi also very controversially

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says that crisis both a mother and a father right

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So she thinks of the christ figure as female to

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she identifies directly with the christ figure But a lot

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of these visions air like never explained and that's what

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makes them kind of more like poetry This sense that

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you're not even sure whether trying to teach you there's

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just so so intense and so visual so visceral Yeah

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they're not always obviously narrative They are high leaves bala

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they're full of images they're impressionistic I could go on

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but basically they're not always stories their visions but in

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text What does julian see Inner vision To whom does

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julian talk in her vision What did jillions visions mean 00:01:33.789 --> [endTime] No nope no visions for me No thank you

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