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Encountering <i>The Book of Margery Kempe</i>
Title
Encountering <i>The Book of Margery Kempe</i> / edited by Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam.
ISBN
9781526146625
9781526146601
9781526146618
Publication
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations, map
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Summary
"This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come."-- Publisher website.
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
Manchester medieval literature and culture
Contents
Part I: Textual encounters
Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents / Diane Watt
The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe / Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
The prayers of Margery Kempe: a reassessment / Josephine A. Koster
II: Internal encounters
The Book of Margery Kempe: autobiography in the third person / Ruth Evans
Margery Kempe as de-facement / Johannes Wolf
Margery Kempe, oral history, and the value of intersubjectivity / Katherine J. Lewis
'A booke of hyr felyngys': exemplarity and Margery Kempe's encounters of the heart / Laura Varnam
III: Encountering the world
Margery Kempe's home town and worthy kin / Susan Maddock
A women's network in fifteenth-rcentury Rome: Margery Kempe encounters 'Margaret Florentyne' / Anthony Bale and Daniela Giosue
Margery Kempe, racialised soundscapes, sonic wars and cosmopolitan Jerusalem / Dorothy Kim
The materialisation of Book II: elements of Margery Kempe's world / Laura Kalas
IV: Performative encounters
Writing performed lives: Margery Kempe meets Marina Abramović / Sarah Salih
Recreating and reassessing Margery and Julian's encounter / Tara Williams.
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