Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh.

Medium Aevum | September 22, 1993| | Copyright

This is the first book-length study of Margery Kempe informed by contemporary theories of gender and textuality, especially as these pertain to reconceptualizations of the 'cultural category of the body' as 'the domain upon which other symbolic constructions rest' (p. 4). It is, therefore, an important book both for mediaeval studies and for feminist cultural histories in general.

Lochrie begins her account of 'writing the body' by historicizing constructions of the body in terms of mediaeval (specifically Augustinian) theological distinctions between 'flesh' and ...

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