Medievalists.net » Margery Kempe http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Walk this Way: Two Journeys to Jerusalem in the Fifteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/walk-this-way-two-journeys-to-jerusalem-in-the-fifteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/walk-this-way-two-journeys-to-jerusalem-in-the-fifteenth-century/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:16:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62356 This paper appraises place pilgrimage to Jerusalem in two late-medieval English texts: The Itineraries of William Wey and The Book of Margery Kempe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/walk-this-way-two-journeys-to-jerusalem-in-the-fifteenth-century/feed/ 0 Margery Kempe and her Autobiography http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/22/margery-kempe-and-her-autobiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/22/margery-kempe-and-her-autobiography/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:51:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59916 Margery Kempe was a self-proclaimed holy woman, visionary, mystic and medieval pilgrim. She is also unique because although she was not proficient at reading and writing, she was determined to record her visions, journeys and spiritual experiences

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/22/margery-kempe-and-her-autobiography/feed/ 0 Margery Kempe and the People on the Periphery http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/31/margery-kempe-and-the-people-on-the-periphery/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/31/margery-kempe-and-the-people-on-the-periphery/#comments Sun, 31 May 2015 18:52:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58578 There are few medieval texts I find so entertaining as The Book of Margery Kempe, the fifteenth-century story of a seemingly ordinary woman of Bishops Lynn, England, whose life was transformed by visions of Jesus. T

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/31/margery-kempe-and-the-people-on-the-periphery/feed/ 0 Medieval mysticism or psychosis? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/28/medieval-mysticism-or-psychosis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/28/medieval-mysticism-or-psychosis/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57932 Alison Torn investigates the strange case of Margery Kempe

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/feed/ 0 ‘Some Like it Hot’: The Medieval Eroticism of Heat http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/like-hot-medieval-eroticism-heat/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/like-hot-medieval-eroticism-heat/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:13:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48318 The late fourteenth-century romance Sir Launfal narrates the financial, martial and erotic adventures of one of the lesser-known knights of the Arthurian court.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/like-hot-medieval-eroticism-heat/feed/ 0 An outside for the inside : a psychoanalytic reading of The Book of Margery Kempe http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:30:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47294 It is evident in Margery Kempe's visions of holy family life that Virgin and Christ dyad is an oedipal fantasy of the child who is the father of himself.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/feed/ 0 The Orthodox Heresies: ‘Lollardy’ and Medieval Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:27:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46947 This is not Margery Kempe’s first run-in with the law. Already, she has been accused multiple times of heresy, of wantonness, and of being a general pest.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/feed/ 0 Perceptions of insanity in medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/01/perceptions-of-insanity-in-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/01/perceptions-of-insanity-in-medieval-england/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:54:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44606 In a Christian society that perceived of a cosmic struggle between good and evil, madness was evidence of a battle lost.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/01/perceptions-of-insanity-in-medieval-england/feed/ 0 Corpus Christi Plays and the Stations of the Cross: Medieval York and Modern Sydney http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/01/corpus-christi-plays-and-the-stations-of-the-cross-medieval-york-and-modern-sydney/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/01/corpus-christi-plays-and-the-stations-of-the-cross-medieval-york-and-modern-sydney/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:37:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40245 The earliest surviving reference to the Corpus Christi festival in York is dated 1322, when Archbishop William Melton commended it as „the glorious feast of the most precious sacrament of the flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ‟. In 1408 the York Guild of Corpus Christi was established „as a confraternity of chaplains and lay persons, with the encouragement of the city government, probably to form the focus of the civic Corpus Christi Day procession‟.

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