A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84384-214-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnold, John H

Lewis, Katherine J

Weitere Mitwirkende

Foster, Allyson

Windeatt, Barry A

Sponsler, Claire

Watt, Diane

Jenkins, Jacqueline

Arnold, John H

Parker, Kate

Lewis, Katherine J

Phillips, Kim M

Cullum, Pat H

Salih, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis
Introduction: Reading and Re-Reading The Book of Margery Kempe - Barry A Windeatt
Margery Kempe and the Ages of Woman - Kim M Phillips
Men and Margery: Negotiating Medieval Patriarchy -

Lynn and the Making of a Mystic - Kate Parker
Margery's Trials: Heresy, Lollardy and Dissent - John H Arnold
A Short Treatyse of Contemplacyon: The Book of Margery Kempe in its Early Print Contexts - Allyson Foster
Reading and The Book of Margery Kempe - Jacqueline Jenkins
Margery Kempe, Drama and Piety - Claire Sponsler
Political Prophecy in The Book of Margery Kempe - Diane Watt
Margery's Bodies: Piety, Work and Penance - Sarah Salih
'Yf lak of charyte be not ower hynderawnce': Margery Kempe, Lynn, and the practice of the spiritual and bodily works of mercy - P H Cullum
Margery Kempe and Saint-Making in Later Medieval England - Katherine J Lewis
Final Thoughts - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Watt, Diane
Professor Diane Watt is Head of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. Secretaries of God won the 1998 Foster Watson Memorial Gift.

Lewis, Katherine J
KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

Lewis, Katherine J
KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.