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The Book of Margery Kempe (Middle English Texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.).)
  

The Book of Margery Kempe (Middle English Texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.).) (Paperback)

by Margery Kempe (Author), Lynn Staley (Editor) "The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest surviving autobiographical writing in English, was lost for centuries until, in 1934, a fifteenth-century manuscript came to light,..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 261 pages
  • Publisher: Western Michigan Univ Medieval (Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1879288729
  • ISBN-13: 978-1879288720
  • Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 17.3 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 104,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for medievalists., 8 Dec 2000
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This is a modern rendering of the earliest surviving autobiographical writing in English. Kempe lived in Lynn, Norfolk, in the late fourteenth-century. She was the daughter of a five-times mayor, a wife, mother of fourteen children and a self-confessed failed business woman. Although famed for the exuberance of her religious experiences, the book also reveals incidental details about Kempe's marriage, work and daily life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The first autobiography in English, 28 April 2009
By Kay Cliff (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
This is the first autobiography in English. It was written in 1436, lost for centuries, rediscovered 1934, and is here translated for the first time from Middle English into fully comprehensible modern language. In it Margery Kempe describes her `madness, financial ruin, religious ecstasies, marital problems and dangerous treks to distant shrines' over a period of 40 years. Strong stuff.
Margery Kempe was married, and had 14 children. She lived in Norfolk in the 14th century. After becoming a visionary and mystic she went on pilgrimages, preached, and was tried. Her `special talent', for which she was both revered and castigated, was the way in which she responded to her visions -- visions such as these:

In chapter 36, God deifies and marries Margery, inviting her to kiss him, embrace him and take him to bed' - a graphically described scene. In chapter 81, she has a vision of the crucifixion and subsequent events: `A little later, I thought I saw our Lady walking towards her home ... Once our Lady was home and resting on her bed it occurred to me to make her a nice hot drink, but when I took it to her she told me to throw it away'.
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