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 ...
This edition brings together for the first time key texts representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the anonymous author of The Cloud ...
Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings. This book is the first to describe Chaucer's literary influence across a wide range of writers and periods. It ...
The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his work and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series offers students the most comprehensive ...
This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems: "The Book of the Duchess", "The Parliament of Fowls", "The House of Fame" and, "Prologue to the Legend of Good Women". Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their ...
The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his work and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series offers students the most comprehensive ...
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