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Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England

Author : Margaret Gallyon

Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 33,55 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN :

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The Christian mystics open our eyes to a world beyond this world, to the world of the spirit and of God, of whom they had a direct knowledge and experience, obtained chiefly through prayer, meditation and contemplation. The purpose of this book is to introduce the general reader to the fifteenth century English mystic, Margery Kempe of Lynn in Norfolk, as seen against her religious, social and historical background, with chapters on her spiritual and devotional life, her home town of Lynn, her encounters with the clergy, her vow of chastity, her pilgrimages, her trials for heresy and her conformity to the customs, faith and doctrines of the church of her day. As a former teacher at King's Lynn High School, Margaret Gallyon acquired a considerable knowledge of the town of Lynn and the surrounding district. It was here too that she first became interested in Margery Kempe, one of Lynn's most fascinating medieval citizens.



The Book of Margery Kempe

Author : Margery Kempe

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 22,14 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0140432515

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The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.







The Oldest Vocation

Author : Clarissa W. Atkinson

Publisher :

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 16,93 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN :

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According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century, but her downfall came when she went into labor in the streets of Rome. From this myth to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe.



A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe

Author : John Arnold

Publisher : DS Brewer

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 10,29 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)

ISBN : 9781843840305

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A collection of essays by twelve historians and literary critics who explore Margery Kempe, her Book, and her world.



Margery Kempe

Author : Anthony Bale

Publisher : Reaktion Books

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 19,3 MB

Release : 2021-09-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1789144698

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A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe. This is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had fourteen children, traveled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts Kempe’s life and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects, and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotations from Kempe’s Book accompany generous illustrations, giving a fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman. Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her time, and her religious visions and later years put in context. And lastly, Bale tells the extraordinary story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the unique manuscript of her autobiography.



Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe

Author : Laura Kalas

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 21,86 MB

Release : 2021-11-30

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1526146606

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This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of ‘encounter’ – textual, internal, external and performative – the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women’s literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.



Margery Kempe

Author : Sandra J. McEntire

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 23,96 MB

Release : 2019-07-05

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0429559615

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Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England. The book looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe, thought to be the first vernacular autobiography in medieval Britain. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself, The Book of Margery Kempe. The essays in the book represent detail literary analysis on Kempe and the critical history of her words.



Margery Kempe and Her World

Author : Anthony Goodman

Publisher : Pearson Education

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 15,14 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780582368088

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"Margery Kempe is one of the most extraordinary figures in English medieval history. Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a burgess and mother of fourteen children, she was also the author of the first surviving autobiography composed by an Englishwoman. The Book of Margery Kempe, dictated in the 1430s, survives in a single manuscript which was discovered in the 1930s. It is an uninhabited, exhibitionist outpouring of impassioned religious emotions. The Book comprises an account of the mystical intimations of a lady born into Lynn's stately but troubled elite. Visionary episodes are interlinked with equally dramatic accounts of mundane experiences, in Margery's home town, in other parts of England, and as far afield as Jerusalem, Rome and Brandenburg."--BOOK JACKET.



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