Margery Kempe''s Meditations - The Context of Medieval Devotional Literatures, Liturgy Iconography

Klappentext Since its rediscovery in 1934! "The Book of Margery Kempe" has generally been judged as over-emotional and naive. Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa argues instead that "The Book of Margery Kempe" is a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress. Yoshikawa explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of the visual and verbal iconography and provides a comprehensive analysis of Margery's meditative experience as it is structured in the book! paying particular attention to develop a coherent theology of the five major meditational expreiences that influence Kempe's spiritual progress."" Zusammenfassung "The Book of Margery Kempe" has generally been judged to be over-emotional and its structure regarded as at worst non-existent! at best naive. This work argues instead that The Book unfolds a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress! and explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of visual and verbal iconography.

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• Authors: Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, YOSHIKAWA NAOE KUKITA
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780708319109
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1910-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages; Religion and Culture in the Mi; Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Mysticism, Meditations, Christianity, mysticism, medieval, of, Christian Mysticism, devotional, Context, Liturgy, iconography, Literatures, Margery, Kempe's