Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe

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.-- Part I: Textual Encounters -- Before Margery: The Book Of Margery Kempe And Its Antecedents / Diane Watt -- The Intertextual Dialogue And Conversational Theology Of Mechthild Of Hackeborn And Margery Kempe / Liz Herbert Mcavoy And Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa -- The Prayers Of Margery Kempe: A Reassessment / Josephine A. Koster -- Ii: Internal Encounters -- The Book Of Margery Kempe: Autobiography In The Third Person / Ruth Evans -- Margery Kempe As De-facement / Johannes Wolf -- Margery Kempe, Oral History, And The Value Of Intersubjectivity / Katherine J. Lewis -- 'a Booke Of Hyr Felyngys': Exemplarity And Margery Kempe's Encounters Of The Heart / Laura Varnam -- Iii: Encountering The World -- Margery Kempe's Home Town And Worthy Kin / Susan Maddock -- A Women's Network In Fifteenth-rcentury Rome: Margery Kempe Encounters 'margaret Florentyne' / Anthony Bale And Daniela Giosuè -- Margery Kempe, Racialised Soundscapes, Sonic Wars And Cosmopolitan Jerusalem / Dorothy Kim -- The Materialisation Of Book Ii: Elements Of Margery Kempe's World / Laura Kalas -- Iv: Performative Encounters -- Writing Performed Lives: Margery Kempe Meets Marina Abramović / Sarah Salih -- Recreating And Reassessing Margery And Julian's Encounter / Tara Williams. Edited By Laura Kalas And Laura Varnam. Includes Bibliographical References (pags 297-309) And Index.