Margery Kempe

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Margery Kempe (* approx. 1373 in King's Lynn , ( England ); † after 1438 ) is an English mystic and visionary who is known for her Middle English writing The Book of Margery Kempe , a work that some consider to be the first autobiography in the English language is considered. This book describes their extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and Asia . Including her 1433 pilgrimage through Germany to the Wunderblutkirche in Bad Wilsnack in the Prignitz , which first took the ship from Danzig to Stralsund and then via Wilsnack to Aachen .

Works

  • The Book of Margery Kempe. Edited by Sanford Brown Meech with prefatory note by Hope Emily Allen. EETS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940.
  • The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Lynn Staley. TEAMS. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
  • The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts and Criticism. Trans. And ed., Lynn Staley. New York: Norton, 2001.

literature

German

  • Louise Collis: Life and Pilgrimages of Margery Kempe. Memories of an eccentric lady. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-8031-2139-6
  • Peter Dinzelbacher : Christian Mysticism in the Occident. Your story from the beginning to the end of the Middle Ages. Paderborn 1994.
  • Johann Hoffmann-Herreros: I will not allow myself to be locked up. The unusual life of Margery Kempe , (Topos-Taschenbuch 173) Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1317-0

English

  • George Ballard : Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain, who have been celebrated for their writings, or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences . Printed by W. Jackson, for the author, Oxford 1752, pp. 8ff .
  • Carolyn Dinshaw: Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern.
  • Cheryl Glenn: Popular Literacy in the Middle Ages: The Book of Margery Kempe. In: Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics , ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh, Pa .: University of Pittsburgh Press 2001.
  • Karma Lochrie, The Book of Margery Kempe: The Marginal Woman's Quest for Literary Authority. In: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986), pp. 33-55.
  • Verena E. Neuburger: Margery Kempe: a study in early English feminism. Bern; Berlin; Frankfurt / M .; New York; Paris; Vienna: Lang 1994 (European university studies: Ser. 14, Anglo-Saxon language and literature; Vol. 278) Zugl .: Zürich, Univ., Diss., 1994 ISBN 3-906752-65-8
  • Lynn Staley, Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Kempe, Margery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mystic and visionary
DATE OF BIRTH around 1373
PLACE OF BIRTH King's Lynn
DATE OF DEATH after 1438