A Ravishing And Restful Sight Analysis

In Amy Laura Hall’s chapter, “A Ravishing and Restful Sight”, she explores how Julian of Norwich’s vision of Christ’s blood can impact a theological perspective on disability. Hall describes the significance of Julian receiving “profligate, abundant, floor-soaking blood” (Hall 157), at a time when society strived for “obsessive control of blood itself” (157); between fear of mixing blood and contamination, bodies which irregularly/regularly bled were disordered. This parallels in my mind to our current society’s obsessive control of bodies, most recently seen in fitness and diet culture. Bodies which do not conform, or be striving to conform, to rigid standards of health and physique are lesser and disordered themselves, and the church often