NOTES
NOTES 1. IMAGINING THE POLITICAL 1. Marc Bloch, Land and Work in Medieval Europe: Selected Papers, J. E. Anderson, trans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 48. 2. Julian never gave a title to her book-perhaps a testimony to its per petually unfinished state. Modern editions are published under various titles, the most common of which is some form of Revelations of Divine Love, though the work is also frequently referred to as Showings, on the basis of the Edmund Colledge and James Walsh's critical edition, entitled A Book ofShowings to the Anchoress Julian ofNorwich, and their popu lar modernization,Julian ofNorwich: Showings, in the Classics of West ern Spirituality series. I have adopted the title A Revelation ofLove, which is how Julian describes the work in the opening of the first chapter of the long text: "This is a reuelacion of loue" (1.2). This is the title chosen by Marion Glasscoe for her edition of British Museum Sloane Manuscript No. 2499. I prefer this to Colledge and Walsh's Showings, which, while descriptively accurate, has no grounding in the text as a description of the work as a whole, and to the plural Revelations, because I believe it better reflects julian's stress on the unity of the message imparted to her over the diversity of the individual showings. 3. Edward Stillingfleet, A Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practiced in the Church of Rome and the Hazzard of Salvation in the Communion ofit: In Answer to Some Papers ofa Revolted Protestant. Wherein a Par ticular Account is Given ofthe Fanaticisms and Divisions of the Church, 2d ed. (London, 1672), 224. 4. Ibid., 226. 5. For a bibliography of editions and translations up to the year 1984, see Christina von Nolcken, "Julian of Norwich," in Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres, A. S. G. Edwards, ed. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984). Since then, Georgia Ronan Crampton has edited a student text for the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, The Shewings ofJulian of Norwich (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 2d ed., 1996) 213 214 / NOTES TO PAGES 1-5 and at least three translations have appeared: Father John-Julian, O.J.N., A Lesson of Love: The Revelations of Julian of Norwich (New York: Walker, 1988); M. L. Del Mastro, The Revelation of Divine Love in Six teen Showings: Made to Dame Julian of Norwich (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Tri umph Books, 1994); and John Skinner, Revelation of Love (New York: Image Books, 1997). 6. Thomas Merton, "The English Mystics," in Mystics and Zen Mas ters (New York: Noonday Press, 1967), 140-141. 7. For discussion of these issues, see the appendix: "Who Was Julian of Norwich?" 8. In very different ways this approach is represented by Colledge and Walsh in their critical edition, by Denise Baker in her book, Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book (Princeton, N.].: Princeton University Press, 1994), and by David Aers in his chapter on Julian in David Aers and Lynn Staley, Powers of the Holy (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996),77-104. 9. Thus Lynn Staley's chapter on Julian in Powers of the Holy, 107-178,Grace Jantzen in Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism (Cam bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), and Elizabeth Robertson's "Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality in the An crene Wisse and Julian of Norwich's Showings," in Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury, eds. (Philadelphia: University ofpennsylvania Press, 1993),142-167. 10. See Ritamary Bradley, julian's Way: A Practical Commentary on Julian ofNorwich (London: HarperCollins, 1994),and countless others. 11. For a brilliant argument defending these axioms, particularly the first, see John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990). Those familiar with Milbank will no doubt see here, as throughout the book, my indebtedness to his work. 12. William T. Cavanaugh, "'A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House': The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State," Modern The ology 11,no. 4 (October 1995): 398. For examples of the standard liberal narrative, see ibid., 416,n. 3. 13. Pierre Manent, An Intellectual History of Liberalism, Rebecca Balinski, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994),8. 14. Ibid., 9. 15. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, George Schwab, trans. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985),36. 16. Ibid., 46. 17...
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