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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Title
"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
Author
Mesibov, Sally
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
Description
SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Title
A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Author
Staton, Jonathan
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
Description
The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....
Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
Title
Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
Author
Doss, Henry
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
Description
ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...