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Julian of Norwich’s deference to the teachings of ‘holy church’ – despite the divergence of these teachings from her own revelations – is a well-known stumbling block for scholars. Some accept her stated obedience as sincere, while others dismiss it as insincere, a rhetorical ploy for disseminating her theological beliefs without alarming the religious authorities of her day. This article proposes a new way of understanding Julian’s deference. I argue that Julian presumed an unknown eschatological event – ‘a deed the whych the blessydfulle trynyte shalle do in the last day … vnknowen of alle creaturys’ – that would precipitate a reinterpretation of the teachings of holy church, just as the coming of Christ was understood by medieval Christians to have precipitated a reinterpretation of the Old Testament. This eschatological reinterpretation would reconcile seemingly intractable tensions between Julian’s revelations and the teachings of ‘holy church.’

The Unknown Deed of the Last Day and Julian of Norwich’s Eschatological Hermeneutic in the Showings