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Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
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Margery's Reading Communities: Literacy and Devotion in The Book of Margery Kempe
This paper examines Margery's interaction with literate culture in The Book of Margery Kempe. It argues that Margery shows an awareness of the way that Christian knowledge is contained within texts and disseminated to wider audiences. Margery presents herself as a saintly figure, a holy woman with …
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DISABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS STIGMA IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
… auto-hagiographical narrative of Margery Kempe’s adult life, <em>The Book of Margery Kempe.</em> Margery Kempe lived ca. 1373–ca. 1440 in Bishop’s Lynn, England and dictated the earliest surviving autobiography written in English. Margery recounts her experiences of stigma based on …
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"She should have more if she were ruled and guided by them" : Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe, female agency in Late Medieval England.
… the aristocracy. Using Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe as cases studies, this thesis examines how these women exercised at least a limited form of agency. Additionally, this thesis examines whether ordinary women have access to the same agency as elite women. Although both were exceptional …
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Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
… Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… The Testimony of William Thorpe, and The Book of Margery Kempe;. These texts employed contemporary notions of intention to represent interiority and to establish morally coherent narratives. Late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century writers, however, not only draw on contemporary discussions of …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… as well as texts such as Robert Glück's 1994 Margery Kempe that defy categorization. Using queer theory, especially Judith Butler's theory of the performativity of gender, and Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject, this project reveals the dynamic nature of virginity and gender as signifiers …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
… accounts of madness, the Book of Margery Kempe and Hoccleve’s Series. The experience of madness can both subvert and reinforce gender roles. Madness is commonly seen as an invasion of the self, which, in a culture which commonly identifies masculinity with bodily intactness, can …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
… Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre” and the anonymous, late fifth-century Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. These five works may differ in author, time of composition, and genre, but I yoke these stories together because of each author's …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… analysis of two female English writers; Margery Kempe and Mary Barnes. The analysis highlights three critical issues in relation to firsthand narratives of madness. First, the blurred boundaries between madness and mysticism and the role of metaphor in understanding distressing …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… Middle English texts, Sir Gowther, The Book of Margery Kempe, and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, from the perspective of kinky reading, a methodology that draws on the traditions of feminist and queer theory and the new field of kink studies. BDSM has historically been pathologized, but …
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A Study of Four Single-Witness English Texts from the 14th and 15th Centuries in Manuscript, Early Print, and Modern Editions
… Additional MS 61823, which contains The Book of Margery Kempe. Each chapter traces the editorial and scholarly history of a single-witness medieval literary text from its first manuscript inscription through its various later forms, including manuscript marginalia, early printed versions, as well …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… Chapter 3 offers a reexamination of The Book of Margery Kempe that argues against Kempe’s presumed illiteracy and demonstrates how she utilizes classroom teachings on self presentation in both her lived experience and the writing of her Book to manipulate her reception by her contemporaries and …
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Textual Reconstruction: The Deployment of Late Medieval Texts In Early Modern England
… Revelations of Julian of Norwich, The Book of Margery Kempe, and The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Instead of trying to maintain late medieval and early modern studies as distinct and separate fields, I propose that we gain a better understanding of spirituality when the two …
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The Art of Arts: Theorising Pastoral Power in the English Middle Ages
… represented by the work of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, are conditioned by the concerns and dynamics of pastoral power, which also affects the practices modern readers bring to bear on them.
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… forming belief. Chapters Three and Four discuss Margery Kempe's worldly and religious attire. I argue that Margery's clothes and tears become a form of livery that reinforces her relationship with the Heavenly household. As a result, her text itself is actually a narrative of cloth, in which she …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… at the work of two authors, William Langland and Margery Kempe, who represent themselves as struggling interpreters of prophetic truth in order to model how their audiences should approach the task of understanding their work. Langland exploits the ambiguity of political prophecy in Piers Plowman, …
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All shall be well: Julian and Bartholomew
… she lived, and a reference made, in The Book of Margery Kempe, to a visit made by Margery to Julian in her cell in 1415, establishes her authenticity.In the essay I have observed and written of medieval living conditions, noting the dramatic weather and health changes that caused much loss of …
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