A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781843842149)

Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context.

Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic tradition; female mystics and the body; women's roles and lifecycle; religious drama and reenactment; autobiography and gender.

Contributors: JOHN H. ARNOLD, P.H. CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, ALLYSON FOSTER, JACQUELINE JENKINS, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, KATE PARKER, KIM M. PHILLIPS, SARAH SALIH, CLAIRE SPONSLER, DIANE WATT, BARRY WINDEATT.

Author: John H. Arnold
ISBN-10: 1843842149
ISBN-13: 9781843842149
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2010
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d