Religious Experience & Interpretation: Memory As the Path to the Knowledge of God in Julian of Norwich's Showings Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Place of Memory in Julian's Visionary Experience and its Interpretation	1
1	Augustine's Theory of Memory	9
	The Nature of Memory	10
	The Triune Mind and the Process of Recollection	17
	The Theory of Divine Illumination	28
	Memory and Time	33
	Conclusion	37
2	Religious Milieu in Late Medieval England	53
	Religious Milieu in the Late Medieval Period	54
	Women Mysticism and Women Mystics in the Late Medieval Period	64
	Religious Milieu in Fourteenth Century England	72
	Religious Women in Late Medieval England	82
	Conclusion	85
3	Julian of Norwich's Life and Work	101
	Julian of Norwich as an Anchoress	102
	Julian of Norwich as a Woman Visionary	105
	Julian of Norwich as a Simple Woman	114
	Julian of Norwich as a Woman Writer and the Relationship Between the Two Texts of the Showings	120
4	The Re-interpretation of Julian's Visionary Experience by Using Augustine's Theory of Memory	145
	A Recapitulation of Augustine's Theory of Memory	146
	Julian's Modes of Vision and Augustine's Theory of Vision	148
	The Process of Recollection	157
	Three Stages of Understanding	164
	The Influence of Augustinian Theology upon Julian's Theological Interpretation of her Revelations	172
	The Intellectual Visions of God, Sin and Salvation and Union	174
	Final Remarks: Time and the Showings	196
	Conclusion	211
	Bibliography	221