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Kempe, Margery
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Kempe, Margery (
c.1373–
c.1440). The manuscript of her memories, which she had dictated in the later years of her life, was discovered in 1934, first published in 1947, and is now considered to be the earliest English autobiography. After the birth of her first child, Kempe, daughter of a prosperous burgess of King's Lynn (Norfolk), suffered a spiritual crisis. In later life she became deeply religious and undertook many pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Rome, and Santiago de Compostella, amongst others.
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Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Book's assumptions, and also Margery Kempe's own, reveal religious attitudes...major problems of The Book of Margery Kempe are still with us. First, who...desire |to banish the woman [Margery Kempe] from her text and to silence...
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AUTHORITATIVE NOISE: MARGERY KEMPE'S APPROPRIATION OF UNIQUE RITUAL AND AUTHORITY
Magazine article from: Magistra; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...called for it.(4) As a woman, Margery Kempe could not communicate in the same...without clerical instruction. Margery Kempe was doubtless aware of the potency...As Nicholas Watson puts it, Margery Kempe's use of intimacy empowers her...
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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Literature in English describes Margery Kempe as "the first autobiographer...standard perception of The Book of Margery Kempe as the memoir of a religious eccentric...narrative of dissent, rendering both Margery and Kempe far more fascinating figures than...
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Margery Kempe: An exemplar of late medieval English piety
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...complete manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe came to light in the 1930's...of Norwich; what they got was Margery Kempe. Kempe's description of her...instance, modern scholars do Margery Kempe a disservice by ignoring the context...
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MARGERY KEMPE AND LOLLARDY
Magazine article from: Magistra; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...of the fifteenth century mystic Margery Kempe is the fact that she was accused...demonstrated.(6) Why, then, was Margery Kempe ever accused of being "the grettest...of Lollardy through the case of Margery Kempe? Barring a simple case of personal...
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Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context...pounds sterling]. The Book of Margery Kempe has been so often and so variously...aspects of the text that reveal Margery Kempe's own devout practices and ecclesial...
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Margery Kempe and Her World
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2006; ; 668 words
; Goodman, Anthony. Margery Kempe and Her World. (Harlow, Essex...Anthony Goodman's new work on Margery Kempe may be somewhat alarmed by the...Same old Margery. In fact Margery Kempe and Her World is not the same...
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"Thei stodyn upon stoyls for to beheldyn hir": Margery Kempe and the power of performance (1).
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 8/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT This paper analyzes Margery Kempe's behaviour as performance. I begin by...Willingly or not, Margery Kempe was a performer. The book of Margery Kempe translates Margery's spectacle into comprehensible...
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The Book of Margery Kempe; or, The Diary of a Nobody.
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; FIRST LET ME SAY that Margery Kempe, who lived from about 1373 to...s success. And The Book of Margery Kempe, which was composed in the 1430s...as its subtitle. The Book of Margery Kempe is often described, with some...
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Mapping the problems of sexual desire in The Book of Margery Kempe. (Literature).
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...as exemplified in The Book of Margery Kempe. In Kempe's book the terms...ideal love for the Son of God. Margery Kempe was considered to be a minor mystic...her communication with God. As Margery Kempe was dictating her text, by contemporary...
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Kempe, Margery
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Kempe, Margery ( c. 1373–after 1438), author of the Book of Margery Kempe . About 1393 she married John Kempe, a burgess of Lynn, by whom she had...
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Margery Kempe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Margery Kempe , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn...citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only...
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Autobiography
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...categories and narratives. From Sei Sh ō nagon's The Pillow Book (Japan, c. 1000 c.e.) to Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe (England, 1436) to Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (United States...
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mysticism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...visions, trances, levitations, locutions, raptures, and ecstasies, many of which are altered bodily states. Margery Kempe's tears and Teresa of Avila's ecstasies are famous examples of such mystical phenomena. But many mystics have...
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King's Lynn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...addition to the fairs that are still held there. A Norman church also remains, as do relics of a moat that surrounded the town in the 15th cent. King's Lynn was the birthplace of the novelist Fanny Burney and the mystic Margery Kempe .
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