Julian of Norwich's Legacy / The New Middle Ages (PDF)

SRARAH SALIH is Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London, UK.   DENISE N. BAKER is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

"This is one of the best collections of essays I have encountered in recent years. The organizing concept is compelling and superbly executed. Every essay is a good fit for the collection, and the essays speak to each other while avoiding repetition. Not only is this volume of value to students and scholars of medieval literature and medievalism, but it should also be required reading for all would-be editors of collections of essays." - Medieval Feminist Forum

"This exciting collection of essays opens up new directions in both medieval studies and studies in medievalism, bringing much-needed rigour to the latter, and putting to work the often advocated but seldom practiced notion that medieval texts are created in their re-reading and reconstruction as much as in their original contexts of production. The collection will be essential to students and scholars of Julian of Norwich but also of interest to anyone in Middle English studies concerned with new approaches to historicism, close reading, and relations between the medieval past and modernity. Julian of Norwich's Legacy, consisting of essays by both senior scholars and newer talents, is exemplary in its use of cultural studies within medieval studies." - David Matthews, University of Manchester

"Just when we thought there was little more to be said about the medieval woman writer, Julian of Norwich, this volume provides an important and exciting new approach to the author, her work and her audiences since the production of her two texts over six hundred years ago. By focusing on Julian s post-medieval reception in particular, Julian of Norwich s Legacy demands a rethinking of the academic labels generally attached to her as writer, mystic or theologian, asking us instead to consider her in terms of constantly evolving symbol or malleable hermeneutic. As such, we are presented with a multiplicity of Julians who are reworked and reinvented according to the needs, interests and requirements of