The Book of Margery Kempe - Brossura

Kempe, Margery

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ISBN 10: 1879288729 ISBN 13: 9781879288720

Casa editrice: Western Michigan Univ Medieval, 1996

Riassunto

Likely written in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery Kempe is a tale of spiritual awakening as remarkable for the literary traditions and conventions it invokes as for how it breaks with them. As a member of the powerful guild of the Holy Trinity in the prosperous East Anglian town of Bishop's Lynn, Margery Kempe wrote from a secure position within a culture her Book comes to criticize; the literary persona she adopts first reflects her urban merchant class and its concerns with profit, prestige, and conventional gender roles, then increasingly rejects them in her growing commitment to her spiritual vocation. Bearing the hallmarks of hagiography and mystical literature, yet presented as what volume editor Lynn Staley terms “medieval female sacred biography,” the Book of Margery Kempe presents a tale of radical reversal whose protagonist’s uniquely intense affective piety is instrumental in gaining her personal, financial, and spiritual autonomy.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Western Michigan Univ Medieval
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1879288729
• ISBN 13: 9781879288720
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 261
• Redattore: Staley Lynn
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile