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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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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Gillian and gnarly What is a
- 00:09
book of showing to the bankers Julian of norwich eyelash
- 00:14
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
- 00:22
religious environment she sees herself almost directing conversation with jesus
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She imagines jesus bleeding from the eyeballs she imagined the
- 00:31
blood being recycled through his feet Cem pretty intense stuff
- 00:37
I think it's important here that she has like some
- 00:39
kind of overarching moral ideas right Andi also very controversially
- 00:43
says that crisis both a mother and a father right
- 00:45
So she thinks of the christ figure as female to
- 00:49
she identifies directly with the christ figure But a lot
- 00:51
of these visions air like never explained and that's what
- 00:54
makes them kind of more like poetry This sense that
- 00:57
you're not even sure whether trying to teach you there's
- 00:59
just so so intense and so visual so visceral Yeah
- 01:04
they're not always obviously narrative They are high leaves bala
- 01:11
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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