{"product_id":"encountering-the-book-of-margery-kempe-9781526171580","title":"Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBook \u003c\/i\u003ein its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the \u003ci\u003eBook\u003c\/i\u003e in the modern world, it\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewill be an essential companion for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The essays gathered in the volume evince our growing understanding of the artistry that undergirds a text that was once considered important but possibly artless. It is this artistry, this sure sense of the dynamics of narrative, of voice, of social and religious conventions and culture, that holds the volume itself together, giving it the implicit unity a gifted author provides to her or his later readers....This is a good volume of essays with which to continue the process of exploration and the joys of discovery.'\u003cbr\u003eLynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Encountering \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e in the twenty-first century – Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam                                                                                                                                \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Textual encounters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Before Margery: \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e and its antecedents – Diane Watt       \u003cbr\u003e2 The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe – Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa                       \u003cbr\u003e3 The prayers of Margery Kempe: a reassessment – Josephine A. Koster  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Internal encounters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e: autobiography in the third person – Ruth Evans\u003cbr\u003e5 Margery Kempe as de-facement – Johannes Wolf\u003cbr\u003e6 Margery Kempe, oral history, and the value of intersubjectivity – Katherine J. Lewis\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘A booke of hyr felyngys’: exemplarity and Margery Kempe’s encounters of the heart – Laura Varnam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Encountering the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Margery Kempe’s home town and worthy kin – Susan Maddock\u003cbr\u003e9 A women’s network in fifteenth-century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters ‘Margaret Florentyne’ – Anthony Bale and Daniela Giosuè\u003cbr\u003e10 Margery Kempe, racialised soundscapes, sonic warss and cosmopolitan Jerusalem – Dorothy Kim\u003cbr\u003e11 The materialisation of Book II: elements of Margery Kempe’s world – Laura Kalas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Performative encounters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 Writing performed lives: Margery Kempe meets Marina Abramovic – Sarah Salih\u003cbr\u003e13 Recreating and reassessing Margery and Julian’s encounter – Tara Williams\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041038139735,"sku":"9781526171580","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526171580.jpg?v=1750948705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/encountering-the-book-of-margery-kempe-9781526171580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}