A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe

List of contents

Preface - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis
Introduction: Reading and Re-Reading The Book of Margery Kempe - Barry A Windeatt
Margery Kempe and the Ages of Woman - Kim M Phillips
Men and Margery: Negotiating Medieval Patriarchy -
Lynn and the Making of a Mystic - Kate Parker
Margery's Trials: Heresy, Lollardy and Dissent - John H Arnold
A Short Treatyse of Contemplacyon: The Book of Margery Kempe in its Early Print Contexts - Allyson Foster
Reading and The Book of Margery Kempe - Jacqueline Jenkins
Margery Kempe, Drama and Piety - Claire Sponsler
Political Prophecy in The Book of Margery Kempe - Diane Watt
Margery's Bodies: Piety, Work and Penance - Sarah Salih
'Yf lak of charyte be not ower hynderawnce': Margery Kempe, Lynn, and the practice of the spiritual and bodily works of mercy - P H Cullum
Margery Kempe and Saint-Making in Later Medieval England - Katherine J Lewis
Final Thoughts - John H Arnold and Katherine J Lewis
Bibliography

Product details

• Assisted by: John H Arnold (Editor), John H. Arnold (Editor), Katherine J Lewis (Editor), Katherine J. Lewis (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9781843842149
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-214-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 388 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories