Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. This staging of the participation in the divine Trinity becomes one of Julian’s most sustained modes of providing comfort-or consolation, in a revisionist Boethian sense-to her readers. By drawing her readers into these three interlocking experiences of time, Julian helps them feel anew their own participation in the divine Trinity. Julian’s staging of contemplation not only relies on Middle English grammar, but also on her careful and deliberate poetic creation of three different de facto time signatures in her work: one encapsulates the feeling of time that human beings have, another encapsulates the feeling of time that Jesus has during his crucifixion, while a third encapsulates the feeling of divine eternity itself. For Julian, as for Cloud, the specific properties of Middle English enable Julian to stage contemplation: she relies on modal verbs and English grammar and syntax to make available a series of meditations on the nature of the divine Trinity-meditations that are crucial to her overall message of comfort. This chapter examines the poetic properties of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love to show how they are central to her partial performance of divine contemplation.
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