The Book of Margery Kempe (Norton Critical Editions),9780393976397

The Book of Margery Kempe (Norton Critical Editions)

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780393976397
ISBN10: 0393976394
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-10
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Map: Medieval England
xx
A Kempe Lexicon xxi
The Text of The Book of Margery Kempe 1(184)
Contexts 185(38)
From The Constitutions of Thomas Arundel
187(9)
From Meditations on the Life of Christ
196(6)
From The Shewings of Julian of Norwich
202(5)
From The Book of Saint Bride
207(11)
From The Life of Marie d'Oignies
218(5)
Jacques de Vitry
Criticism 223(80)
Female Sanctity in the Late Middle Ages
225(11)
Clarissa W. Atkinson
Authorship and Authority
236(7)
Lynn Staley
From Utterance to Text
243(13)
Karma Lochrie
The Making of Margery Kempe: Individual and Community
256(8)
David Aers
Historicizing Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe as Social Text
264(12)
Kathleen Ashley
St. Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
276(8)
Gail McMurray Gibson
Margery Kempe's Imitatio
284(4)
Sarah Beckwith
Lake Medieval Eucharistic Doctrine
288(11)
Caroline Walker Bynum
Arundel's Constitutions
299(4)
Nicholas Watson
Selected Bibliography 303

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