A Companion to The Book of Margery KempeJohn Arnold, Katherine J. Lewis "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 |
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