"This book is about what happens when a person comes up against this glass and lives to tell the tales. It thinks about the entanglement of illness and revelation, asking how and why these phenomena seem to share so many characteristics. But most of all, the book considers the aftermath of these fracturing events: their impact on a person as well as the textual artifacts that emerge from them - how they are theorized, interpreted, and put into language."
"This is the most exhilarating book in medieval studies I've read in some time. It continues the recent recovery, to use a word of rich significance in Lucas's book, of Julian as an important medieval and modern theologian, and presents her here as a significant phenomenologist with substantial challenges to contemporary phenomenology. This is not just an important engagement with several contemporary theoretical concerns (disability studies, medical humanities, phenomenology)"
Julian of Norwich experienced intense illness in 1373 accompanied by visionary encounters that blurred boundaries between physical sickness and spiritual revelation. The illness-revelation entanglement produced fracturing events that altered bodily perception, consciousness, and social identity. Recovery following these events involved reshaped subjectivity and the production of interpretive artifacts that translate bodily experience into conceptual forms. These processes implicate questions of phenomenology, disability studies, and medical humanities by foregrounding how extreme corporeal states generate knowledge and resist simple distinctions between pathology and insight. The aftermath of such events reveals both the vulnerability of embodiment and the transformative possibilities of narrating experience.
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