This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled 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 Engl...

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Main Author:	Bale, Anthony Paul 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Reaktion Books 2021
Series:	Medieval lives
Subjects:	Margery > Kempe > 1373-1439 Kempe, Margery / approximately 1373- Women mystics / England / Biography Women authors, English / Middle English, 1100-1500 / Biography Christian women / Religious life / England Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages / Early works to 1800 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Christian women / Religious life Women mystics England 1100-1500 Biographies Early works Biografie
Summary:	This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled 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 her life, and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotation from Kempe's Book, and generous illustration, gives 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. Lastly there is the story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the unique manuscript of her autobiography
Physical Description:	248 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:	9781789144703