Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

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.

Author: Laura Kalas
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 04/11/2023
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781526171580
ISBN10: 1526171589
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Mysticism

About the Author

Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University
Laura Varnam is Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford