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The book of Margery Kempe / Margery Kempe ; introduced and translated by Luke Penkett.
Van Pelt Library PR2007.K4 A199 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- author.
- Series:
- Classics of Western spirituality
- The classics of Western spirituality
- Standardized Title:
- Book of Margery Kempe. English (Penkett)
- Language:
- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373-.
- Kempe, Margery.
- Authors, English--Middle English, 1100-1500--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Early works to 1800.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Mysticism--England--Early works to 1800.
- Mysticism.
- Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Christian women--Religious life--England.
- Christian women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York [New York] ; Mahwah, NJ : Paulist Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book is an introduction to an illuminating modern English translation of The book of Margery Kempe"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Here is an illuminating modern English translation of 'The book of Margery Kempe.' With its comprehensive endnotes and indices, this volume takes account of the most recent findings in the field of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century affective devotion. While there are a number of articles and chapters in books, theses, and dissertations on various aspects of Margery Kempe's spirituality, this translation presents a synthesis of Margery's many diverse spiritual practices, contextualizing these in time to such inspirational early thirteenth-century texts as the 'Ancrene Wisse,' as well as transnationally to her contemporary mulieres religiosae, who often formed their identities as they remained in the world, living as devout laywomen across Europe. Luke Penkett's introduction provides a scholarly yet accessible way to 'The book of Margery Kempe.'-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Preface: Introduction to the spirituality of Margery Kempe
- Translator's note
- The book of Margery Kempe: Proem ; Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Prayers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kempe, Margery. Book of Margery Kempe
- ISBN:
- 9780809106769
- 0809106760
- OCLC:
- 1456834184
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