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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Krug, Rebecca (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Margery Kempe and the lonely reader [Texte imprimé] / Rebecca Krug
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-241 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Comfort ; Despair ; Shame ; Fear ; Loneliness ; Afterword.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index
Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become
a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. In
Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wroter her
Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture Kempe discovered a desire
to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought
to live lives of intense emotional engagement. An unlikely candidate for authorship
in the late medieval period given her gender and lack of formal education, Kempe wrote
her Book as a revisionary act. Krug shows how that Book reinterprets concepts from
late medieval devotional writing (comfort, despair, shame, fear, and loneliness) in
its search to create a spiritual community that reaches out to and includes Kempe,
her friends, family, advisers, and potential readers. Krug offers a fresh analysis
of the Book as a written work and draws attention to the importance of reading, revision,
and collaboration for understanding both Kempe's particular decision to write and
the social conditions of late medieval women's authorship. -- from dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Kempe, Margery (1373?-1440?)
Kempe, Margery (1373?-1440?). The book of Margery Kempe
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501705335. - ISBN 1501705334 (rel.). - ISBN 9781501708152 (erroné). - ISBN
9781501708169 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45263205r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45263205
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
