... to approach texts from a new perspective. In red reading a text like The Book of Margery Kempe , with its emphasis on holism and fluid consciousness, we can reach past the orality and textuality at the forefront of the text to interrogate and explore the liminality of a third (ghostly) consciousness...

... mystical writings run by John Ganim, we came to the always fascinating and often vexing Book of Margery Kempe . As we began to discuss the text, I noticed a strange phenomenon. Almost immediately, all the other graduate students began to discuss Margery’s pathology, diagnosing her with everything from...

... engaging its readers or hearers in m uch the same way that other public works Mandeville s Traveis or Margery Kemp s Book dealt with marvels, miracles, questions of belief or as the iconology of church decoration taught and argued the questions of the Christian life, of dam nation or salvation...

... to M argery Kempe, as she is in w aiting upon his m other in her fam ously dom estic m editations. Even Margery's de­ sire to touch the Lord's very physical fo o t at his ascension is an acceptable "hom liness," as is its counterpart in wom en caressing an infant Jesus surrogate to prom ote fe rtility...