The Book of Margery Kempe / Edition 1

The Book of Margery Kempe / Edition 1

by Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley
ISBN-10:
0393976394
ISBN-13:
9780393976397
Pub. Date:
11/10/2000
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0393976394
ISBN-13:
9780393976397
Pub. Date:
11/10/2000
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
The Book of Margery Kempe / Edition 1

The Book of Margery Kempe / Edition 1

by Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley

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Overview

The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.
Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, Meditations on the Life of Christ, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, The Book of Saint Bride, and The Life of Marie d'Oignies by Jacques de Vitry.
"Criticism" includes nine varied interpretations of the autobiography, written by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Lynn Staley, Karma Lochrie, David Aers, Kathleen Ashley, Gail McMurray Gibson, Sarah Beckwith, Caroline Walker Bynum, and Nicholas Watson.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393976397
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 11/10/2000
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Anthony Bale studies at the universities of Oxford and York and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Christian-Jewish relations, the poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate, religion in East Anglia, and fifteenth-century literature and pilgrimage. He is the editor of Mandeville's Book of Marvels and Travels from Oxford World's Classics, and in 2011 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

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