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This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe
into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of
'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the
volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe,
characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches.
It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses,
including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary
culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital
humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle
Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing
several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its
global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in
the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to
come. -- .
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe
into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of
'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the
volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe,
characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches.
It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses,
including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary
culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital
humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle
Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing
several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its
global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in
the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to
come. -- .
The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical
discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and
physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first
full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities
perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality
in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the
Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a
narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of
which she has previously been a passive subject. Focusing on the
interactions of medicine, mysticism and reproduction as a feminist
project, the author explores the ontology of female flesh; the
productive use of pain, suffering and sickness; and the ethics of a
maternal theology based on the melancholic and surrogate activities
that underlie Kempe's experience. Structured broadly via a traverse
through the life course, the book shows how Kempe's response to
suffering is illuminated by the medieval medical discourse by which
she is contemporaneously read, and by which she engineers her own
construction and understanding of self. It also explores Kempe's
persistent attendance to her mystical body and refusal to
compromise her instinct to authentically show how she feels.
The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical
discourse. Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and
physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first
full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities
perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality
in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the
Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a
narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of
which she has previously been a passive subject. Focusing on the
interactions of medicine, mysticism and reproduction as a feminist
project, the author explores the ontology of female flesh; the
productive use of pain, suffering and sickness; and the ethics of a
maternal theology based on the melancholic and surrogate activities
that underlie Kempe's experience. Structured broadly via a traverse
through the life course, the book shows how Kempe's response to
suffering is illuminated by the medieval medical discourse by which
she is contemporaneously read, and by which she engineers her own
construction and understanding of self. It also explores Kempe's
persistent attendance to her mystical body and refusal to
compromise her instinct to authentically show how she feels.
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