Margery Kempe : a mixed life / Anthony Bale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bale, Anthony, 1975- author.

Series:

Medieval lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373-.

Kempe, Margery.

Women mystics--England--Biography.

Women mystics.

Women authors, English--Middle English, 1100-1500--Biography.

Women authors, English.

Christian women--Religious life--England.

Christian women.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Early works to 1800.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Christian women--Religious life.

England.

Genre:

Biographies.

Early works.

Physical Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Foreword: A Note on this Book

Creature

The Town of Bishop's Lynn

Places

Friends and Enemies

Things

Feelings

Old Age

Writing and Rediscovery

Envoie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-239) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1789144701

9781789144703

OCLC:

1227270014

Publisher Number:

99994759298