16 pagesInternational audienceMargery Kempe's account of her mystical experience reveals a major fault line of late medieval society, where the authorities come into conflict. The new, highly personal strain of devotion she embraces confronts the clergy with the problem of controlling and channelling the powerful emotional expressions that result. The book documents Margery's quest for trustworthy and sympathetic spiritual counsellors, a search that is never quite resolved. Christ seems to represent the ideal confessor, speaking from and in the penitent's heart. Still, in order to confirm their authenticity, Margery must disclose her 'feelings' to clerical authorities, and the response to her revelations is ambivalent. To make interpretatio...
The Book of Margery Kempe tells the apparently true story of a medieval wife and mother of fourteen ...
This thesis examines the fifteenth-century auto-hagiographical narrative of Margery Kempe’s adult li...
Margery Kempe (c. 1373-1438), the author--not the writer--of The Book of Margery Kempe, lived--when ...
16 pagesInternational audienceMargery Kempe's account of her mystical experience reveals a major fau...
16 pagesInternational audienceMargery Kempe's account of her mystical experience reveals a major fau...
The Book of Margery Kempe is primarily, and most importantly, a manual of spiritual instruction med...
The Book of Margery Kempe is primarily, and most importantly, a manual of spiritual instruction medi...
Historically, the boundaries between madness and mysticism have been characterised by fluidity. Howe...
In the Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century lay mystic, recorded her spiritual ...
The Book of Margery Kempe (1436 x 1438) is a unique and crucial document for exploring medieval subj...
The Book of Margery Kempe is a medieval autobiography dictated by the Christian mystic, Margery Kemp...
A late medieval mystic prone to violent bouts of sobbing, Margery Kempe suffers a range of verbal ab...
Bakhtin viewed the medieval world as two-tiered: an “official” establishment culture maintained the ...
There are few today who would consider Margery Kempe as an individual displaying characteristics of ...
This thesis explores the complexities in the mysticism and literary authority of Margery Kempe as th...
The Book of Margery Kempe tells the apparently true story of a medieval wife and mother of fourteen ...
This thesis examines the fifteenth-century auto-hagiographical narrative of Margery Kempe’s adult li...
Margery Kempe (c. 1373-1438), the author--not the writer--of The Book of Margery Kempe, lived--when ...
16 pagesInternational audienceMargery Kempe's account of her mystical experience reveals a major fau...
16 pagesInternational audienceMargery Kempe's account of her mystical experience reveals a major fau...
The Book of Margery Kempe is primarily, and most importantly, a manual of spiritual instruction med...
The Book of Margery Kempe is primarily, and most importantly, a manual of spiritual instruction medi...
Historically, the boundaries between madness and mysticism have been characterised by fluidity. Howe...
In the Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century lay mystic, recorded her spiritual ...
The Book of Margery Kempe (1436 x 1438) is a unique and crucial document for exploring medieval subj...
The Book of Margery Kempe is a medieval autobiography dictated by the Christian mystic, Margery Kemp...
A late medieval mystic prone to violent bouts of sobbing, Margery Kempe suffers a range of verbal ab...
Bakhtin viewed the medieval world as two-tiered: an “official” establishment culture maintained the ...
There are few today who would consider Margery Kempe as an individual displaying characteristics of ...
This thesis explores the complexities in the mysticism and literary authority of Margery Kempe as th...
The Book of Margery Kempe tells the apparently true story of a medieval wife and mother of fourteen ...
This thesis examines the fifteenth-century auto-hagiographical narrative of Margery Kempe’s adult li...
Margery Kempe (c. 1373-1438), the author--not the writer--of The Book of Margery Kempe, lived--when ...