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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. -- .
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church
by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual
performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The
meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only
for the church's sanctity but for the identity of the parish
community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach
the laity, it shows how the church's status as a sacred space at
the heart of the congregation was dangerously - but profitably -
dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably
linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the
sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin. -- .
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church
by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual
performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The
meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. The book explores what was at stake not only
for the church's sanctity but for the identity of the parish
community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach
the laity, it shows how the church's status as a sacred space at
the heart of the congregation was dangerously - but profitably -
dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably
linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the
sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin. -- .
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