Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays [Hardcover]

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.

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part I: The Woman  1 Margery Kempe and Her Calling  2. Understanding by Feeling in Margery Kempes Book  3. Margery Kempes Tears and the Power Over Language  4. The Journey into Selfhood: Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality  Part II: Her Work  5. From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of The Book of Margery Kempe  6. Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in The Book of Margery Kempe  7. Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction  Part III: Her World  8. Margery Kempe and Kings Lynn  9. Margery Kempe, St Bridget, and Marguerite dOingt: The Visionary Writer as Shaman  10. Margery Kempe and the Kings Daughter of Hungary  11. Bridge, Margery, Julian, and Alice: Bridget of Swedens Textual Community in Medieval England  12. Margery and Alison: Women on Top  List of References Cited  Index

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the aul“$