Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas, Laura ... - 9781526171580

Encountering the Book of Margery KempeAuthor(s): Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526171580, 978-1526171580\nSynopsis\nThis 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 womens 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 Bo.