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Full Title

Margery Kempe and her world 1st Edition

Author(s)

A.E. Goodman

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781317879282, 9781138149380, 9780582368088, 9781317879299, 9781315839240, 9781317879275

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Daughter of a mayor of King’s Lynn, wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her ‘autobiography’ to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines “The Book”, to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow.  Including her spiritual experiences, but focusing most particularly on her day-to-day life, he builds an intriguing picture of bourgeois society in late medieval Lynn, and the wider world of late medieval towns in England and Europe more generally.