o the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., her revelation of these visions, Showings, is colored by her experience and temperament as an individual woman. Julian's depiction of the crucifixion describes Christ's love for humanity upon his crucifixion. "This I took it for that time that our Lord Jesu of his courteous love would show me the comfort before the time of my temptation; for me thought it might well be that I should by the sufferance of God and with his keeping be tempted of fiends before I should die." (Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Ed., p. 294) His choice to
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