
The Book of Margery Kempe
Lynn Staley(Editor)
Medieval Institute Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-879288-72-0 (ISBN)
Description
Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery Kempe is a tale of spiritual awakening as remarkable for the literary traditions and conventions it invokes as for how it breaks with them. As a member of the powerful guild of the Holy Trinity in the prosperous East Anglian town of Bishop's Lynn, Margery Kempe wrote from a secure position within a culture her Book comes to criticize; the literary persona she adopts first reflects her urban merchant class and its concerns with profit, prestige, and conventional gender roles, then increasingly rejects them in her growing commitment to her spiritual vocation. Bearing the hallmarks of hagiography and mystical literature, yet presented as what volume editor Lynn Staley terms "medieval female sacred biography," the Book of Margery Kempe presents a tale of radical reversal whose protagonist's uniquely intense affective piety is instrumental in gaining her personal, financial, and spiritual autonomy.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-879288-72-0 (9781879288720)
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Book of Margery Kempe
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Lynn Staley is Professor of the humanities and medieval studies at Colgate University. She specializes in Chaucer, medieval literature and culture, Spenser, and early Renaissance literature.
Content
Preface
Introduction
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The Book of Margery Kempe
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The Book of Margery Kempe
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