The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)

Margery Kempe; B A Windeatt (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0140432515 / ISBN 13: 9780140432510

Verlag: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1987

Beschreibung

Previous owner's name on first inside page. Pages slightly discoloured, but text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Sound overall. Publisher's note: The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage. Size: 19.6 x 12.9 x 2.1 cm. 332 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373; Authors, English -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Biography; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Early works to 1800; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christian women -- Religious life -- England.; ISBN: 0140432515. ISBN/EAN: 9780140432510. Add. Inventory No: 250819RE5639.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)
• Verlag: Penguin, Harmondsworth
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140432515
• ISBN-13: 9780140432510
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Biography & Autobiography

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Inhaltsangabe

"You can boldly take me in the arms of your soul and kiss my mouth, my head, and my feet as sweetly as you want"
 
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kemp recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.
 
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Barry Windeatt is a professor of English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Penguin Classics.

Barry Windeatt is a professor of English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Penguin Classics.