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David Holgate’s statue of Julian of Norwich, pictured on the front cover of this book, attests to the multiplicity of Julian’s audiences and the temporal complexity of her present-day persona. Erected to mark the millennium, the statue stands in a fifteenth-century niche in the west front of Norwich Cathedral, where the visible difference in age between statue and niche acknowledges the passage of time. That the niche was empty testifies to the post-Reformation attempts to reimagine the national religious past; that it has been refilled indicates a desire to reach past that rupture and recuperate the medieval. Julian, who stands framed by, but distinct from, the institution of the Church, has replaced a figure of a bishop, which occupied the niche until 1875: the desire to memorialize her in so prominent a position is very recent.1 Standing beside the main visitors’ entrance to the Cathedral, she is accessible to pilgrims, tourists, and passersby.
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Salih, S., Baker, D.N. (2009). Introduction. In: Salih, S., Baker, D.N. (eds) Julian of Norwich’s Legacy. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101623_1
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