A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe

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John Arnold, Katherine J. Lewis
DS Brewer, 2004 - 246 pages
"In this new collection of essays, twelve historians and literary critics explore Margery Kempe, her Book, and the world around her. The chapters cover a multitude of themes, from charity to heresy, bodily piety to medieval masculinity, print culture to sainthood, literacy to civic politics, drama to prophecy. The authors both survey existing work and present new arguments, insights and ideas." "All the essays endeavour to historicise Margery, examining simultaneously the forces surrounding the constitution of the Book, the import and meaning of the events it describes, and the wider social, cultural and political currents through which Margery cut a swathe; together the collection provides an informative introduction both to its central figure, and to the world that surrounded her."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

Reading and Rereading The Book of Margery Kempe
1
Margery Kempe and the Ages of Woman
17
Negotiating Medieval Patriarchy
35
Lynn and the Making of a Mystic
57
Heresy Lollardy and Dissent
75
The Book of Margery Kempe
95
Reading and The Book of Margery Kempe
115
Margery Kempe
129
Political Prophecy in The Book of Margery Kempe
147
Piety Work and Penance
161
Margery Kempe
177
Margery Kempe and Saint Making in Later Medieval England
195
Afterword
217
Bibliography
223
Index
241
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