The Book Of Margery Kempe

Author : Margery Kempe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140432510

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The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe Pdf

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 : Laura Kalas,Laura Varnam
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526146601

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Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas,Laura Varnam Pdf

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 : John Arnold,Katherine J. Lewis
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
ISBN : 1843840308

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A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe by John Arnold,Katherine J. Lewis Pdf

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

Author : Robert Gluck
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374321

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Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck Pdf

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Glück about the creation of the book titled "My Margery, Margery's Bob."

Author : Sandra J. McEntire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429559617

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Margery Kempe by Sandra J. McEntire Pdf

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 : Lynn Staley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271040226

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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions by Lynn Staley Pdf

Author : Clarissa W. Atkinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801498953

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Mystic and Pilgrim by Clarissa W. Atkinson Pdf

A biography of the medieval English religious pilgrim Margery Kempe and a social and cultural history of her world.

Author : Margery Kempe,Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859917916

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The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe,Liz Herbert McAvoy Pdf

Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine. A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in1934. Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to a bemused John Kempe, provides us with an autobiographical account of her own singular brand of affective piety - excessive weeping, lack of bodily control, compulsive travelling, visionary meditations - and the growth of what she regarded as an individual and privileged mystical relationship with Christ. This new excerpted, thematically organised translation of the challenging text focuses on passages which will contextualise for the reader its author's reliance upon the experiences of her own maternal and sexualised body in an attempt to gain spiritual and literary authority. With detailed introduction and challenging interpretive essay, this volume uncovers in particular the importance of motherhood, sexuality and female orality to the inception and expression of Margery Kempe's singular mystical experiences and adds to contemporary debate regarding the agency of holy women during the later middle ages. LIZ HERBERT McAVOY is Lecturer in Medieval Language and Literature, University of Leicester.

Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141904603

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Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart Pdf

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812207538

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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Karma Lochrie Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144697

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Margery Kempe by Anthony Bale Pdf

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 : A.E. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317879299

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Margery Kempe by A.E. Goodman Pdf

Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines "The Book", to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow. Including her spiritual experiences, but focusing most particularly on her day-to-day life, he builds an intriguing picture of bourgeois society in late medieval Lynn, and the wider world of late medieval towns in England and Europe more generally.

Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841672

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 by Larry Scanlon Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780191629105

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The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville Pdf

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince Prester John. There are giants and pygmies, cannibals and Amazons, headless humans and people with a single foot so huge it can shield them from the sun . Forceful and opinionated, the narrator is by turns bossy, learned, playful, and moralizing, with an endless curiosity about different cultures. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary travel narrative that offers some revealing and unexpected attitudes towards other races and religions. It was immensely popular, and numbered among its readers Chaucer, Columbus, and Thomas More. Anthony Bale's new translation emphasizes the book's readability, and his introduction and notes bring us closer to Mandeville's medieval worldview. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Marie France
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141389349

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The Lais of Marie De France by Marie France Pdf

Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.