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""This is a most welcome and timely intervention in the field of late medieval visionary literature. With its careful analysis of the Apocalypse's influence upon William Langland and Julian of Norwich, Byron-Davies makes a strong case for far more widespread apocalyptic concerns imbricating late medieval socio-religious texts and their epistemologies than have hitherto been considered. Linking exegetical tradition with more immediate socio-religious apocalyptic hermeneutics, this book skilfully unpicks the complex entanglement of theology, eschatology, soteriology, textual poetics and gender construction articulated in both subtle and complex ways in the writings under scrutiny.""--Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea University

This is a most welcome and timely intervention in the field of late medieval visionary literature. With its careful analysis of the Apocalypse's influence upon William Langland and Julian of Norwich, Byron-Davies makes a strong case for far more widespread apocalyptic concerns imbricating late medieval socio-religious texts and their epistemologies than have hitherto been considered. Linking exegetical tradition with more immediate socio-religious apocalyptic hermeneutics, this book skilfully unpicks the complex entanglement of theology, eschatology, soteriology, textual poetics and gender construction articulated in both subtle and complex ways in the writings under scrutiny. --Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea University

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The book will be of particular interest to undergraduates and it could be used on courses which explore one or both of these texts. It will also appeal to academics, postgraduates, and also readers beyond the academy who have a keen interest in medieval/apocalyptic literature, Christianity, theology, history, and gender issues.

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