Bibliograph

Margery Kempe, a mixed life, Anthony Bale

Type

Label

Margery Kempe, a mixed life, Anthony Bale

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-239) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Margery Kempe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1227270014

Responsibility statement

Anthony Bale

Series statement

Medieval lives

Sub title

a mixed life

Summary

This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work. The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts her life, and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotation from Kempe's Book, and generous illustration, gives fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman. Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her time, and her religious visions and later years put in context. Lastly there is the story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the unique manuscript of her autobiography

Table Of Contents

Foreword: A Note on this Book -- Creature -- The Town of Bishop's Lynn -- Places -- Friends and Enemies -- Things -- Feelings -- Old Age -- Writing and Rediscovery -- Envoie

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