Encountering The Book Of Margery Kempe

Author : Laura Kalas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526146606
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe written by Laura Kalas and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Laura Kalas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526146618
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe written by Laura Kalas and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Margery Kempe
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140432515
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Margery Kempe written by Margery Kempe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jessica Barr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131699
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Jessica Barr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Author : Laura Kalas
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843846840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine written by Laura Kalas and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144698
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margery Kempe written by Anthony Bale and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sandra J. McEntire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559615
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margery Kempe written by Sandra J. McEntire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rebecca Krug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501705335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader written by Rebecca Krug and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comfort -- Despair -- Shame -- Fear -- Loneliness

Author : Margery Kempe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199686645
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Margery Kempe written by Margery Kempe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. The earliest autobiography in English, It describes Kempe's transformation from businesswoman to pilgrim, her visions, hostile encounters with clergy and travels to holy sites abroad. This new translation provides full introduction and notes.

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1634 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Early twentieth-century through contemporary written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.