Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine - Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Bleeding the Tears of Melancholia
2. 'Þe mukke' of Marriage and the Sexual Paradox
3. Lost Blood of the Middle Age: Surrogacy and Fecundity
4. Margery Medica: The Healing Value of Pain Surrogacy
5. The Passion of Death Surrogacy
6. Senescent Reproduction: Writing Anamnestic Pain
Afterword / Afterlife
Select Bibliography
Glossary of Medical Terms

About the author

LAURA KALAS is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Swansea University.

Summary

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Kalas, Laura Kalas-Williams
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781843845546
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-554-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Geschichte der Medizin, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, RELIGION / Mysticism