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Internal exile: Dorothea of Montau's inward journey.(Critical Essay)
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This paper deals with the physical as well as spiritual dimension of pilgrimage on the basis of the life of Dorothea of Montau as recounted by John of Marienwerder. Dorothea's extensive traveling, her marital problems, her visions and the ultimate enclosure make her a typical example of late medieval female saint. Yet, it is not only her visionary experiences but the political situation in late medieval Prussia that made John of Marienwerder perceive and constru...
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Mapping the problems of sexual desire in The Book of Margery Kempe. (Literature).
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; Because he dreams of seeding the world with words his eyes bite She looks He looks away He is snowblind from staring at her breasts They make love This is marked by asterisks those gaps disguised as stars * * * He thinks the future is a mouth She invites him into her apple (1) Erica Yong's
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Dorothea's House Plans 90th Birthday Celebration
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; Italian Voice, The 09-23-2004 Dorothea's House, an Italian-American cultural organization in Princeton, will hold a celebration to commemorate its 90th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 3 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 120 John St., Princeton. Opened in 1914 as a living memorial to Dorothea Van Dyke McLane,
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AUTHORITATIVE NOISE: MARGERY KEMPE'S APPROPRIATION OF UNIQUE RITUAL AND AUTHORITY
Magistra
; Margery's Kempe's Book shows how a fourteenth century English woman went about the process of relinquishing a secular middle-class life to confess God and rise from sinner to spiritual authority. Questions of how she managed to do so are central to much scholarship about Kempe, since she had to
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A Companion to 'The Book of Margery Kempe'.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Medium Aevum
; A Companion to 'The Book of Margery Kempe', ed. John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), xxiv + 246 pp. ISBN 1-84384-030-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling85.00. This Companion makes a valuable contribution to the flourishing body of
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