| Margery Kempe and Her World Contributor(s): Goodman, A. E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0582368081 ISBN-13: 9780582368088 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Europe - Medieval - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Medieval World |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.5" W x 9.34" (1.01 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |