Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

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Laura Kalas (Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Medical Humanities) Laura Varnam

Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Laura Kalas (Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Medical Humanities), Laura Varnam

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Manchester University Press
17 August 2023

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Christian mysticism

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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.

Edited by: Laura Kalas (Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Medical Humanities), Laura Varnam
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9781526171580
ISBN 10: 1526171589
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 17 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

'The essays gathered in the volume evince our growing understanding of the artistry that undergirds a text that was once considered important but possibly artless. It is this artistry, this sure sense of the dynamics of narrative, of voice, of social and religious conventions and culture, that holds the volume itself together, giving it the implicit unity a gifted author provides to her or his later readers....This is a good volume of essays with which to continue the process of exploration and the joys of discovery.' Lynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University, The Medieval Review -- .