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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Book of Margery Kempe"”.
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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
<p>This thesis examines the fifteenth-century 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 …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
This dissertation examines the concept of intention and its relationship to the idea of the moral self in late medieval England. Late medieval English writers often identified intention, as opposed to action, as the site of moral identity. Drawing on medieval legal distinctions between intended and …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
This thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
This dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history …
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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
… written in English, dating from between the last quarter of the fourteenth century and the third quarter of the fifteenth: London, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x, which contains the Pearl poems; Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ll.iv.14, containing the fragmentary poem …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
My dissertation demonstrates the importance of an examination of the literary works included as part of the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools both for understanding the instruction of generations of schoolchildren and for reading the Middle English literature …
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Textual Reconstruction: The Deployment of Late Medieval Texts In Early Modern England
<p>Textual Reconstruction: The Deployment of Late Medieval Texts in Early Modern England, examines the early modern print histories of four late-medieval devotional texts: The Scale of Perfection, The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, The Book of Margery Kempe, and The Mirror of the Blessed Life of …
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All shall be well: Julian and Bartholomew
The creative content of my thesis has been developed from a personal experience that became the catalyst, and source material for the creative part of the novella All Shall Be Well: Julian and Bartholomew. The essay, and the preface to the creative side, situates the thesis as a work of reflection …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
<p>In a diverse range of late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional literature, Christ's body is metaphorically related to a book or a document at the moment of his crucifixion. His skin transforms into parchment, whips and scourges become pens, and a steady flow of blood, of ink, covers his …