PERFORMING THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DEVIL : THE "THEATRICALITY" OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICAL CULTURE

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Julian of Norwich: "e fende sett [hym] in my throte, puttyng forth a visage fulle nere my face lyke a yonge man, and it was longe and wonder leen. 1 saw nevyr none such; the coloure was reed, lyke the tylle stone whan it is new brent, with blacke spottes there in lyke frakylles, fouler than th-e tyle stone"LT, p. 635).
Margery Kempe: "d this vexacyon endured xji days togethyr, and, lyche as be-for-tyme sche had iiij owrys of þe for noon in holy spechys &alyawns with owr Lord, so had sche now/ as many owrys of fowle thowtys &owle mendys of letchery &lle vclennes as thow sche xulde a be comown to al manor of pepyl. & þe Deuyl bar on hande, dallying n'to hir with cursyd thowtys liche as owr Lord dalyid to hir be-fom tyme with holy thowtys"pp. 144-145). Many "thyn hethyn and Cristen comyn be-for hir syght þat sche myth not enchewyn hem no putan hem owl of hir syght, schewyng her bar membrys vn-to hir &erwyth be Deuyl bad hir in hir mende chesyn whom sche vole han first of hem alle &che must be comown to hem alle."p.145)
Catherine of Sienna: "e feend bycause he seemed þat sche is ofte lukewarm, entrib in her by manye dyuerse temptaciouns. And it he fynde þere ony maner hete of lone, or myslikynge and displesaunce of synnes, anoon he is wibstonde, so þat he dar not entre"(p.199-200).
".not for my creatures schulden be ouercome, but for þei schulden ouercome þe feend, and þat þei schulden resceyue of me þe gloie of victorie þoru þe vertu þat is preuyd in hem"p.100).