Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader /

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Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe 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 v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krug, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ; Cornell University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373-
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373- > Book of Margery Kempe.
Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery)
Christian women > Religious life.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
Christian women > Religious life > England.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Early works to 1800.
Women authors, English > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Biography.
England.
Early works.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Comfort
  • Despair
  • Shame
  • Fear
  • Loneliness.

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