Margery Kempe and Her World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780582368088)

Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines "The Book", to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow. Including her spiritual experiences, but focusing most particularly on her day-to-day life, he builds an intriguing picture of bourgeois society in late medieval Lynn, and the wider world of late medieval towns in England and Europe more generally.

Author: A. E. Goodman
ISBN-10: 0582368081
ISBN-13: 9780582368088
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2002
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.50w x 0.65d