Kalas / Unknown / Varnam Encountering <i>The Book of Margery Kempe</i>

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4662-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of ‘encounter’ to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Kalas, Laura

Varnam, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century – Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam
Part I: Textual encounters
1 Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents – Diane Watt
2 The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe – Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
3 The prayers of Margery Kempe: a reassessment – Josephine A. Koster
Part II: Internal encounters
4 The Book of Margery Kempe: autobiography in the third person – Ruth Evans
5 Margery Kempe as de-facement – Johannes Wolf
6 Margery Kempe, oral history, and the value of intersubjectivity – Katherine J. Lewis
7 ‘A booke of hyr felyngys’: exemplarity and Margery Kempe’s encounters of the heart – Laura Varnam
Part III: Encountering the world
8 Margery Kempe’s home town and worthy kin – Susan Maddock
9 A women’s network in fifteenth-century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters ‘Margaret Florentyne’ – Anthony Bale and Daniela Giosuè
10 Margery Kempe, racialised soundscapes, sonic warss and cosmopolitan Jerusalem – Dorothy Kim
11 The materialisation of Book II: elements of Margery Kempe’s world – Laura Kalas
Part IV: Performative encounters
12 Writing performed lives: Margery Kempe meets Marina Abramovic – Sarah Salih
13 Recreating and reassessing Margery and Julian’s encounter – Tara Williams
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University
Laura Varnam is Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford