Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader / / Rebecca Krug.
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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Krug, Rebecca, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader / Rebecca Krug. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Comfort -- 2. Despair -- 3. Shame -- 4. Fear -- 5. Loneliness -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 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 Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, 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 Book as a revisionary act. Krug shows how the Book reinterprets concepts from late medieval devotional writing (comfort, despair, shame, fear, and loneliness) in its search to create a spiritual community that reaches out to and includes Kempe, her friends, family, advisers, and potential readers. Krug offers a fresh analysis of the Book as a written work and draws attention to the importance of reading, revision, and collaboration for understanding both Kempe's particular decision to write and the social conditions of late medieval women's authorship. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Early works to 1800. Christian women Religious life England. Women authors, English Middle English, 1100-1500 Biography. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Studies. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110665871 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017 9783110540550 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE ENGLISH 2017 9783110625264 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2017 9783110547764 ZDB-23-DEG print 9781501705335 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501708169 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501708169 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501708169/original |
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