In 1934, Margery Kempe's amazing book was discovered 400 years after it was written. Dame Margery's is the first known autobiography in English, and details the spiritual awakening of a highly unusual medieval woman: wife, mother of 14, world traveler, and mystic.
'The Book of Margery Kempe', the earliest surviving autobiography in English (dated 1436-8), is a unique account of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of a fifteenth-century Norfolk housewife and mother, pilgrim, prophet and visionary; it is one of the most compelling and significant English texts of the middle ages. This volume ...
A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in 1934. Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to ...
Discovered in 1934, some 400 years after she wrote it, Margery Kempe?s autobiography is the first known autobiography to be written in English. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the medieval life and times of a wife, mother of 14, world traveler, and mystic.
Because Margery Kempe was illiterate, her book was dictated to two scribes, showing an extraordinary recall of outer events and of her inner life over 40 years. Most of the manuscript disappeared, reappearing in 1934. Since then, two translations have been published. This book puts Margery's Middle English into fully comprehensible English. ...
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