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Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader by Kempe, Margery;Krug, Rebecca is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<P>Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century <I>Book of Margery Kempe</I> has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and vowed to lead a deeply religious life while remaining part of the secular world. After twenty years, Kempe began to compose with the help of scribes a book of consolation, a type of devotional writing found in late medieval religious culture that taught readers how to find spiritual comfort and how to feel about one's spiritual life. In <I>Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader</I>, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she discovered a desire to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought to live lives of intense emotional engagement.An unlikely candidate for authorship in the late medieval period given her gender and lack of formal education, Kempe wrote her <I>Book</I> as a revisionary act. Krug shows how the <I>Book </I>reinterprets concepts from late medieval devotional wr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kempe, Margery;Krug, Rebecca
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501708169
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities