- Description
- 1 online resource
- Summary
- Since its rediscovery in 1934, the 15th-century 'Book of Margery Kempe' has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a 15th-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 20 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. This work 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.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9781501708169
- OCLC
- EDZ0001721108
- Author
Krug, Rebecca, author.
- Title
Margery Kempe and the lonely reader / Rebecca Krug.
- Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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