dc.contributor.author | Miles, Laura Saetveit | |
dc.contributor.editor | Carrillo-Rangel, David | |
dc.contributor.editor | Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I. | |
dc.contributor.editor | Acosta-García, Pablo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-07T11:50:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-07T11:50:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.Published | Miles LS: Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation. In: Carrillo-Rangel D, Nieto-Isabel, Acosta-Garcia. Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages, 2019. Palgrave Macmillan p. 203-235 | eng |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-030-26028-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/22124 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay takes a new approach to the well-known meeting between two late-medieval English visionary women, Margery Kempe and the anchoress Julian of Norwich, as described in The Book of Margery Kempe. In this analysis their conversation subtly evokes a long history of women concentrating their subversive power through intimate, spiritual exchange, a history reaching back to the Biblical Visitation scene and expressed in its medieval artistic and literary instantiations. A queer reading illuminates the way that such female same-sex relationships challenge patriarchal systems by offering a privileged access to God outside clerical supervision. By examining Margery and Julian’s encounter, Luke’s Visitation passage, its depiction in a late-medieval Book of Hours, and comparing two different Middle English translations of a Visitation vision in Birgitta of Sweden’s Revelations, the full transgressive effect of queer touch between women—or even its unspoken possibility—emerges. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | eng |
dc.title | Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation | eng |
dc.type | Chapter | |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-01-27T11:21:03Z | |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2019 The Author(s) | eng |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26029-3_8 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1782831 | |
dc.identifier.citation | In: Carrillo-Rangel D, Nieto-Isabel, Acosta-Garcia. Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages, 2019. Palgrave Macmillan p. 203-235 | |