Julie Chappell

Perilous Passages (eBook, PDF)

The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534–1934

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137277688
• Artikelnr.: 40722262

Autorenporträt

Julie A. Chappell is Professor of English at Tarleton State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. The Carthusian Connection 2. Carthusian Preaching Materials 3. Death, Dissolution, and Dispersal 4. Digbys, Erdeswicks, Bowdons, and Butler-Bowdons 5. Recovery, Revelation, and Revival Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Prologue 1. The Carthusian Connection 2. Carthusian Preaching Materials 3. Death, Dissolution, and Dispersal 4. Digbys, Erdeswicks, Bowdons, and Butler-Bowdons 5. Recovery, Revelation, and Revival Epilogue Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Chappell's Perilous Passages relates the complex, almost miraculous, survival of the single text of The Book of Margery Kempe to the story of Kempe's own life, the 'palimpsest' of her own spiritual awakening and the claiming of her spiritual voice. This carefully researched and intellectually imaginative book will be of interest to scholars of medieval Christianity in many fields, from material culture to women's studies, to theology." - E. Ann Matter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA "Perilous Passages makes a fascinating and unique contribution to the study of Margery Kempe and her Book. Flawlessly researched, engagingly written and richly detailed, it carries readers on the many physical migrations of Kempe's manuscript through turbulent English Catholic history, while arguing that Kempe's purpose was to embody her own spiritual journey in textual form." - Amanda L. Capern, University of Hull, UK