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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 265–294.
Published: 01 May 2019
... century via two of its earliest theorists, Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe, and it shows how compassion functioned as a keyword, registering a series of challenges and confusions in its meaning that represented a cultural change—including increased focus on the humanity of Christ—which demanded new...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 323–345.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Emma W. Olson This essay reads The Book of Margery Kempe alongside the morality plays of the Macro manuscript — The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom , and Mankind — to argue that the Book shares important features with them. Kempe's documentary mission relies on morality play formulas and themes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 245–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Kimberly Fonzo This article argues that the devil's appearance in chapter 59 of The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative adaptation of Legenda aurea hagiographies in which a devil takes on the guise of a woman to seduce male saints. Like a male saint, Kempe is tempted with a sexual spectacle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 397–453.
Published: 01 May 2006
... stature; an epical traveler inspired by saints’ lives, à la Margery
Kempe, who is yet neighbor to the diarists and closet dramatists of Elizabe-
than and Jacobean England. Above all, this is a woman who fights for liter-
ate, self-governing female collectivity, a life of social and intellectual activ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of their authors. As can be seen in the works of the three most prom-
inent English examples — Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, and Methley —
their works rely heavily on mystical autobiography.10 Though not all writ-
ten in the first person, their writings are invariably focalized through the
consciousness...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
... appropriated the terms
of ravishment and rapture from English mystics like Walter Hilton, Julian
of Norwich, and Margery of Kempe in order to establish the veracity and
epistemological certainty of biblical revelations.
This kind of appropriation by Protestants of traditionally Catho-
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Ordinaria reads, mulierib[us] in ecclesia docere non permittit [It is not permitted for women to preach in church].17 It should come as no surprise, then, that Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century visionary writer who frequently came under attack for speaking publicly about her visions, reacts negatively...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2002
... the unfinished and unpub-
lished tales Chaucer had written being transformed into an authoritative
text with a veneer of completeness, a text appropriated for political pur-
poses.
The relationship between Margery Kempe and the male scribes
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of the official institutions that otherwise defined
urban space and social practice. As the Book of Margery Kempe most famously
shows, orthodox devotion that insists on an extra-institutional position could
be as unsettling—perhaps more unsettling—to religious and secular author-
ity than heresy itself...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 333–363.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., the impossibility of divine
contradiction serves primarily as an interpretive guide, and so central is the
idea of contradiction to her theology that Margery Kempe, in summarizing
Julian’s teachings to her, mentions it repeatedly. Margery notes, for instance,
that according to Julian the Holy Ghost cannot...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 641–655.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and Early Modern Culture, vol. 30. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, vol. 76. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. vii, 189 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Howes, Hetta Elizabeth. Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to “The Book of Margery Kempe.” Cambridge: D. S. Brewer...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and Ann Marie Rasmussen, eds., Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural
Approaches (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, –
Some nonvirgins simply claimed the status. Thus, Margery Kempe, a mother of four-
teen children, asserted that Christ had rewarded her pure devotion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 221–269.
Published: 01 May 2007
... details that are generically associated with such
texts. Many accounts of conversion begin with sickness as the catalyst for
the new life. The illness St. Francis experienced as a young man altered his
perceptions of the world and his place in it. In English literature, The Book of
Margery Kempe...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 January 2012
... with
it comes the distractions of housekeeping and children. In letters to Peter
Abelard (1079 – 1142), the lover she secretly married, Heloise concludes that
the figure of a wife is implacably opposed to the possibility of single-minded
passion. So, too, for Margery Kempe (1373 – ca. 1438), one...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Medieval Press, 2022. 376 pp., 14 color and 13 black-and-white illus. Hardcover, ebook. Kalas, Laura. Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation, and the Life-Course . Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, (2020) 2023. xiv, 252 pp., 9 illus. Paperback. Leja, Meg. Embodying the Soul...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 181–195.
Published: 01 January 2020
... on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales. Foreword by Terry Jones. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. xi, 286 pp.; 21 figs. $94.95. Krug, Rebecca. Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... like Margery Kempe had
nothing to do with any challenge she posed to traditional doctrine. It was
the very strength of her orthodoxy — her belief in what was actually hap-
pening to her God each time the Mass was said — that made her presence
in church so disruptive; her screaming threatened...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... accompany the drawing. For Michael Bury, such nonrepresentational images deflect attention from object to measure, and devotion from outward to inward piety. 65 Their abstraction would have appealed less to someone like Margery Kempe, who appreciates verisimilitude. On pilgrimage in Rome, seeing mothers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., Scale, 1.11; and Julian of Norwich’s advice
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to Margery Kempe, in Sanford Brown Meech and Hope Emily Allen, eds., The Book
of Margery Kempe, EETS o.s. 212 (London: Oxford University Press, 1940), 42 – 43...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 197–228.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the religious: artistic, cultural, political, and psychosocial.
One can see the complex interplay of these diverse considerations not only in
such common practices as the devout reimaginings of the Passion (Margery
Kempe’s in Jerusalem, for example), but in something more unusual like
the Mandeville...
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