![]() ![]() Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.īeonio-Brocchieri, Mariateresa Fumagalli. ![]() The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. ![]() The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography. The Book of Margery Kempe as Social Text.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īshley, Kathleen. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. ![]() Nevertheless, despite the thriving religious and scholarly appreciation for Margery Kempe, neither the medieval Catholic community nor the current one has ever, during her lifetime or in the intervening centuries, endorsed her status as a mystic, 1 much less her sanctity I want to explore, very briefly, the reason for this range of response from communities of scholars, and then to examine the interconnection between the volatile speech and volatile body of Margery Kempe, and the attitude evinced by the scholarly (and Catholic) community toward her place in female hagiography. Margery Kempe’s opening sentences begin in resistance, and with the body, and it’s a good thing-because her decision not to abide in silence, to exert, even to disrupt, her physical space/body as integral to her participation in a life with God has been subjected to endless communities of criticism, at first frankly hostile and, only latterly, offering a qualified admiration. ![]()
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