Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life Bale Anthony
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life Bale Anthony A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe.This is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim…
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Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life Bale Anthony
A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe.This is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Anthony Bale charts Kempe's life and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects, and experiences that influenced her. Kempe, who had fourteen children, traveled 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.
Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her time, and her religious visions and later years put in context. Extensive quotations from Kempe's Book accompany generous illustrations, giving a fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman. And lastly, Bale tells the extraordinary story of the rediscovery,
Book of Margery Kempe