Toward a feminine poetics -- The "gendered" style: Perpetua's waterjug, Hildegard's womanish times, and Julian's hazelnut -- Vibia Perpetua martyr and a feminine style of revelation -- Hildegard of Bingen and teh Via Affirmativa. Legitimacy of voice ; The affair of Richardis von Stade ; Letter to the prelates of Mainz ; In vera visione: beginning, middle, and end -- Julian of Norwich and the Via Negativa. The kenosis of Christ and Julian's field of play ; Reading the Westminster Shewings -- Afterword: conclusions, contexts, and open questions.
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