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The Book of Margery Kempe
by Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley (transl)
Published by W. W. Norton, 2000
Staley's new translation stays close to the original
Middle English. Accompanied by annotations, a map of
Medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, Contexts, Criticism,
and a select bibliography.
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The Book of Margery Kempe
by Margery Kempe, John Skinner (translator)
Published by Doubleday, June 1998
This new translation is excellent,
with a good introduction to both Kempe
and her "Book" by John Skinner, who has
previously translated Julian of Norwich's
"Revelations."
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 | Book of Margery Kempe
(Penguin Classics)
by Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt (Tr.)
Viking Press, 2000
This edition has a good introduction to both
Kempe and her autobiography, as well as a
suggested chronology of her life, excellent
notes and a worthwhile bibliography of further
reading. The translation is readable without
sacrificing the original 'flavour' of the text.
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 | Margery Kempe and Her World
by A. E. Goodman
Published by Longman, 2002
"Tony Goodman reviews all aspects of Margery's career and
writings in this full history of her life and times, but
particularly examines the Book to expose the bourgeois
society of late medieval Lynn and also to reconstruct her
conventional biography, aside from the intensity of visions
and devils. Margery Kempe provides a mirror to the world in
which she lived, giving the reader an opportunity to hear
a "real" voice of medieval people, from Lancastrian kings
to the people of the Baltic." —The Publisher.
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 | The Book Of Margery Kempe: Scholarship, Community, & Criticism
by Marea Mitchell
Published by Peter Lang Publishing, 2005
"Mitchell traces some of the fascinating stories behind
the proliferation of productions since then, including
the involvement of Hope Emily Allen and other independent
women scholars, popular receptions of the Book in World War II,
and current productions that locate it as part of a medieval
literary canon. Working from a cultural materialist perspective,
Mitchell focuses on the materiality of the text itself and
of the bodies of scholarship that have arisen around it."
—The Publisher
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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions
by Lynn Staley
Paperback
Hardcover
Pennsylvania State Univ Press, Sept 1994
"Staley finds the Book a significant contribution to our
appreciation of numerous medieval topics, including
authorship, sacred biography, ecclesiastical exegesis,
and English national identity. . . . Theoretically sophisticated
and critically informed." —C.S. Cox - Choice
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English Mystics of the Middle Ages
by Barry Windeatt (Editor)
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr , Oct 1994
"This edition brings together for the first time key
texts representing the writings of the medieval
English mystics. The texts are newly edited from
manuscripts, and are supplemented with notes
and a glossary. The book focuses on five major
authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the anony-
mous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame
Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe; extracts
from contemporary translations are also included
to illustrate the reception of European mystical texts
in later medieval England." —CUP.
Table of Contents
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Body and Soul : Essays on Medieval
Women and Mysticism
by Elizabeth Alvida Petroff
Oxford Univ Press, April 1994
Paperback
Hardcover
"A collection of essays intended to fulfill two goals: to
introduce readers to medieval women mystics and their
world, and to offer specialists close readings of a number
of important texts from the point of view of various theorists.
The general reader will, I hope, come away from reading
this volume with a greater appreciation of medieval women
and their writings, and a desire to learn more about and
from them." —The Author.
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Women Mystics in Medieval Europe
by Emili Zum Brunn,
Georgette Epiney-Burgard,
Sheila Hughes (Translator)
Paragon House, July 1,1989
If you have an interest in women and mysticism
in the middle ages beyond Margery Kempe,
this book will help. It covers a number of
women and their stories: Hildegard of Bingen,
Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth,
Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete.
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