Fully-annotated edition of English mystic Margery Kempe's life and
divine revelations [dated 1436-8]. [This edition previously published
by Longman.]
The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest surviving autobiography in
English (dated 1436-8), is a unique account of the extraordinary life,
travels and revelations of a fifteenth-century Norfolk housewife and
mother, pilgrim, prophet and visionary; it is one of the most compelling
and significant English texts of the middle ages. This volume presents
the original text in accessible form for modern readers, with on-page
glossing and a glossary of common words. It is accompanied by on-page
annotation of and commentary on the Book, bringing together scholarship
on Kempe and setting her life in the social, political and spiritual
context of her time. An introduction provides information on and context
for the further interpretation of the text, and the volume is completed
by a chronology of Kempe's life. [This edition previously published by
Longman.]
Professor BARRY WINDEATT is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.