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The Book of Margery Kempe

An Abridged Translation

By: Margery Kempe,Liz Herbert McAvoy

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The Book of Margery Kempe

An Abridged Translation

By: Margery Kempe,Liz Herbert McAvoy

Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine. A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in1934. Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to a bemused John Kempe, provides us with an autobiographical account of her own singular brand of affective piety - excessive weeping, lack of bodily control, compulsive travelling, visionary meditations - and the growth of what she regarded as an individual and privileged mystical relationship with Christ. This new excerpted, thematically organised translation of the challenging text focuses on passages which will contextualise for the reader its author's reliance upon the experiences of her own maternal and sexualised body in an attempt to gain spiritual and literary authority. With detailed introduction and challenging interpretive essay, this volume uncovers in particular the importance of motherhood, sexuality and female orality to the inception and expression of Margery Kempe's singular mystical experiences and adds to contemporary debate regarding the agency of holy women during the later middle ages. LIZ HERBERT McAVOY is Lecturer in Medieval Language and Literature, University of Leicester.

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164

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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ISBN 10

0859917916

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9780859917919

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By: Margery Kempe

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How To Be a Medieval Woman

By: Margery Kempe

And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." ' Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including exasperated fellow pilgrims in Jerusalem and her long-suffering husband - Margery Kempe was one of the most vivid and unforgettable voices of the Middle Ages. Whether travelling alone, getting herself arrested or having visions of marrying Jesus, Margery repeatedly defied feminine convention - and also managed to compose the first autobiography in English, despite being unable to read or write. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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128

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Penguin UK

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0241252288

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9780241252284

The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe

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The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe

A remarkable medieval woman's life and the earliest surviving autobiography in English, now updated with new material The story of the eventful life of Margery Kempe - medieval wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her vow of chastity and pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her story late in life: a remarkable portrait of a woman of unforgettable character and courage. This fully updated edition of Barry Windeatt's modern English translation includes a new introduction, notes and scholarly apparatus. Translated with a new introduction by Barry Windeatt

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302

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Penguin UK

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0141915889

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9780141915883

The Lady Smut Book of Dark Desires (an Anthology)

HarperImpulse Erotic Romance

By: Liz Everly,Madeline Iva,C. Margery Kempe,Elizabeth Shore

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The Lady Smut Book of Dark Desires (an Anthology)

HarperImpulse Erotic Romance

By: Liz Everly,Madeline Iva,C. Margery Kempe,Elizabeth Shore

The Lady Smut Book of Dark Desires' features four paranormal stories of erotic temptation & paranormal thrills!

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288

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HarperImpulse

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0008124051

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9780008124052

A Lifetime of Illusions

In the Mystic Valley and Beyond

By: Margery Wheeler Mattox

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A Lifetime of Illusions

In the Mystic Valley and Beyond

By: Margery Wheeler Mattox

The seeds of this story were planted generations ago. Telling her own story and those her mother, Margaret W. Wheeler, related to her, Margery Wheeler Mattox draws the reader into an unforgettable tale of love, deceit, murder, intrigue, and survival, all set around a mysterious mansion built during Revolutionary times in a valley that will stir your imagination and haunt your soul.

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348

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Aperture Press

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098368782X

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9780983687825

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